Welcome to SIGCE

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SIGCE: An International Special Interest Group on Collaborative Editing

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Real-time collaborative editors allow a group of users to view and edit the same text/graphic/image/multimedia document at the same time from geographically dispersed sites connected by communication networks, such as the Internet. These types of groupware systems are not only very useful tools in the areas of CSCW, but also serve excellent vehicles for exploring a range of fundamental and challenging issues facing the designers of real-time groupware systems in general.

Research on real-time group editors in the past decade has invented an innovative technique for consistency maintenance, under the name of operational transformation. A number of research groups in the world have contributed to the development of the operational transformation technique in their design and implementation of these types of systems. Despite the great deal of interests and actitivities in this area, research in the past has been conducted in a rather isolated fashion, with little communication or collaboration among different groups. At the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Seattle, USA, Nov. 1998, a group of active researchers in this area met and decided to form a Special Interest Group on Collaborative Editing (SIGCE) to promote communication and collaboration in this research area. This Web site has been set up to link existing SIGCE members sites together and to provide a repository of useful information.

This SIGCE is open for anyone with a research interest in this area. To be included in the SIGCE mailing list, please contact C.Sun@cit.gu.edu.au.