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Increased reliance on optimistic data replication has led to burgeoning interest in tools and frameworks for synchronizing disconnected updates to replicated data. We have implemented a generic synchronization framework, called Harmony, that can be used to build statebased synchronizers for a wide variety of tree-structured data formats. A novel feature of this framework is that the synchronization process—in particular, the recognition of conflicts—is driven by the schema of the structures being synchronized. We formalize Harmony’s synchronization algorithm, state a simple and intuitive specification, and illustrate how it can be used to synchronize trees representing a variety of specific forms of application data, including sets, records, and tuples.
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Foster, J.N., Greenwald, M.B., Kirkegaard, C., Pierce, B.C., Schmitt, A. (2005). Exploiting Schemas in Data Synchronization. In: Bierman, G., Koch, C. (eds) Database Programming Languages. DBPL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11601524_3
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