A Version Numbering Scheme with a Useful Lexicographical Order

A method for controlling versions of software and other hierarchically structured entities is presented. Using the variant structure principle, a particular version of an entire system is formed by combining the most relevant existing versions of the ...

Object version propagation is a means of managing versions of complex objects automatically. Complex objects are objects linked to other objects by dependence relations such as composition, inheritance, association, equivalence, etc. The object version ...

The paper introduces a version management model which exploits knowledge about the contents of documents. This is in contrast to most existing models which basically consider versioned objects as flat (attributed) files. The benefits of the approach are ...