KMSquote: KMS frames are small: many more frames than users; so, conflicts are rare

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In KMS, the unit of representation is small--frames average only two paragraphs of content. As a result, the number of frames in a KMS database rapidly outnumbers its users. Since updating of the database occurs at the individual frame level, conflicts between users can occur only when they attempt to modify the same frame at the same time. Our experience shows that conflicts rarely occur since users are usually working in different areas of the database, even when they are working on the same document. For instance, there were several occasions when all three authors of this article were reading and modifying its frames simultaneously, yet conflicts were rare, because there are over 200 frames that make up the article.   Google-1   Google-2

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