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Version Control in Online Software Repositories

Version Control in Online Software Repositories
Version Control in Online Software Repositories
Software version control repositories provide a uniform and stable interface to manage documents and their version histories. Unfortunately, Open Source systems, for example, CVS, Subversion, and GNU Arch are not well suited to highly collaborative environments and fail to track semantic changes in repositories. We introduce document provenance as our Description Logic framework to track the semantic changes in software repositories and draw interesting results about their historic behaviour using a rule-based inference engine. To support the use of this framework, we have developed our own online collaborative tool, leveraging the fluency of the modern WikiWikiWeb.
Cryptography, Online Collaboration, Semantic Web, Version Control, WikiWikiWeb
550-556
CSREA Press
Watkins, E Rowland
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Nicole, Denis A
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Arabnia, Hamid R
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Reza, Hassan
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Arabnia, Hamid R.
Reza, Hassan
Watkins, E Rowland
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Nicole, Denis A
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Arabnia, Hamid R
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Reza, Hassan
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Arabnia, Hamid R.
Reza, Hassan

Watkins, E Rowland and Nicole, Denis A (2005) Version Control in Online Software Repositories. Arabnia, Hamid R, Reza, Hassan, Arabnia, Hamid R. and Reza, Hassan (eds.) In SERP'05 : proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, June 27-29, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada. vol. II, CSREA Press. pp. 550-556 .

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Abstract

Software version control repositories provide a uniform and stable interface to manage documents and their version histories. Unfortunately, Open Source systems, for example, CVS, Subversion, and GNU Arch are not well suited to highly collaborative environments and fail to track semantic changes in repositories. We introduce document provenance as our Description Logic framework to track the semantic changes in software repositories and draw interesting results about their historic behaviour using a rule-based inference engine. To support the use of this framework, we have developed our own online collaborative tool, leveraging the fluency of the modern WikiWikiWeb.

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Published date: June 2005
Keywords: Cryptography, Online Collaboration, Semantic Web, Version Control, WikiWikiWeb
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, Electronic & Software Systems, IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 261606
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261606
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Date deposited: 28 Nov 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 21:35

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Author: E Rowland Watkins
Author: Denis A Nicole
Editor: Hamid R Arabnia
Editor: Hassan Reza
Editor: Hamid R. Arabnia
Editor: Hassan Reza

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