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Topic: hypertext as a distributed system

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Group:
distributed database

Topic:
examples of distributed systems and applications
Topic:
hypertext as a global database
Topic:
implementation of hypertext databases
Topic:
implementing distributed systems and applications
Topic:
shared information for collaborative work
Topic:
using hypertext for cooperative work

Summary

Hypertext is easily distributed. As with most distributed applications, problems include access controls, concurrent update, and communication costs. (cbb 4/07)
Subtopic: access rights and update consistency up

Quote: multiuser access to information is necessary; access rights and update consistency make this complicated [»yankN10_1985]
Quote: HAM provides distributed access over a network with recovery and rollback of transactions [»bigeJ3_1988]
Quote: ZOG provides for read-only, automatically updated, secondaries stored on remote machines [»akscRM5_1984]

Subtopic: problem of intersteller travel up

Quote: interstellar travel will degrade access delays to the centralized data bank
[»nelsTH_1987]

Related Topics up

Group: distributed database   (6 topics, 194 quotes)

Topic: examples of distributed systems and applications (25 items)
Topic: hypertext as a global database (30 items)
Topic: implementation of hypertext databases (17 items)
Topic: implementing distributed systems and applications (41 items)
Topic: shared information for collaborative work (36 items)
Topic: using hypertext for cooperative work
(9 items)


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