Trust-Based Collaboration Service Framework: A Platform for Communication and Content Sharing

This article discusses a novel framework for trust-based multidevice collaboration services. This framework opens up significant scope for applications and collaboration opportunities among heterogeneous devices mimicking human interaction. We present a topology map middleware service and a distributed querying application service that run on top of this framework. We are currently working on addressing the key challenges presented and developing new middleware, application services, and optimization techniques that leverage heterogeneous multidevice collaboration such as colocation detection, determining colocation pattern, and task offloading.