Overview
The aim of LORELEY is to design solutions for large scale trustworthy distributed collaborative systems without a central authority. It will focus its research efforts on reliable, secure and explainable replication mechanisms for shared data and trust building and evaluation among users, agents and collaboration platforms. The proposed approaches and models will be applied in the fields of collaborative editing, peer-to-peer storage and edge computing, and crisis management.
Research directions
LORELEY is structured around three main research axes:
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Collaborative Data Management – We aim to design and evaluate replication mechanisms for complex data, including composition of multiple data types and enforcement of global invariants.
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Security Mechanisms for Distributed Collaborative Systems – This includes designing access control and group key management mechanisms without a central authority, as well as developing mitigations against Sybil attacks.
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Trustworthy Collaboration – This axis focuses on building and evaluating trusted collaboration platforms, as well as fostering trust between human collaborators and virtual agents.
Human factors play a transversal role across all three axes, addressing several critical aspects. These include human-centered design, ensuring that replication and security mechanisms consider human decision-making in conflict resolution, and trust management informed by empirical research. User experience is also a central concern, emphasizing the evaluation of user acceptance of the proposed solutions. Finally, we examine the group effect, extending the analysis beyond individual-system interactions to study the dynamics and impact of collaboration within user groups.
