Cooperative data management for XML data

Abstract

Emerging non-standard applications like the production of high-quality spatial sound pose new challenges to data management. Beside the need for a flexible transactional management of complex hierarchical scene descriptions a main requirement is the support of cooperative processes allowing a group of authors to edit a scene together in a distributed environment. Based on previous work on cooperative and non-standard transactions we present in this paper a transaction model and protocol for XML databases addressing this issues. © Springer-Verlag berlin Heidelberg 2007.