Web-Based Virtual Research Environments (VRE): Support Collaboration in e-Science

Yang, Xin; Allan, Rob

doi:10.1109/wi-iatw.2006.148

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“…Current literature discusses various technologies used for the development of VREs. Most of the VREs that have been developed to date have taken existing applications of a similar nature, such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), to use as its foundation (for example see: Adler et al, 2004;Yang and Allan, 2006;Yang and Allan, 2007;Singh, 2008). Consequently, the development of VREs has been technology driven, rather than demand driven.…”

Section: Virtual Research Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As with many other VREs (for example see: Adler et al, 2004;Yang and Allan, 2006;Yang and Allan, 2007;Singh, 2008) VEBER was based on an open source distributed toolset, known as Moodle (www.moodle.org). Moodle was originally developed as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).…”

Section: The Virtual Environment For Built Environment Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current academic discussions on VREs seem to be heavily focused on technological aspects. The majority of current literature on VREs discusses how modern technologies can be used to develop VREs to establish the resource base and the infrastructure to conduct collaborative research (for example see: Fraser, 2005;Yang and Allan, 2006;Yang and Allan, 2007;Singh, 2008). To ensure proper take up of the VRE concept within research communities, it is essential to assess whether VREs cater for the actual needs of their users.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Human‐computer Interaction Principles Based Framework to Assess the User Perception of Web Based Virtual Research Environments

Keraminiyage

Amaratunga

Haigh

2009

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Due to various challenges and opportunities such as globalisation of research agenda and advancements in information and communication technologies, research collaborations (both international and national) have become popular during the last decade more than ever before. Within this context, the concept of Virtual Research Environments(VRE) is an emerging concept looking at addressing the complex challenges associated with conducting collaborative research. Even though concept of VRE is at its infancy, it is important to assess user perception about those, both to establish its success of uptake and future development strategies. However, to date, there is no formal method established to evaluate VREs .This paper reports a strategy adopted within an international collaborative research project (EURASIA) to evaluate its custom built VRE, VEBER, using the well known Computer Human Interaction principles. Santruka Ivairiausi iššūkiai ir galimybes, tokios kaip planuojamu moksliniu tyrimu globalizacija ir informacijos bei komunikacijos technologiju pažanga, pastaraji dešimtmeti leme didesni nei bet kada tiriamojo bendradarbiavimo (ir tarptautinio, ir nacionalinio) populiaruma. Šiame kontekste virtualiosios moksliniu tyrimu aplinkos (VMTA) savoka – tai gimstanti savoka, kuria siekiama imtis sudetingu iššūkiu, susijusiu su tiriamuoju bendradarbiavimu. Nors VMTA savoka kol kas žengia pirmuosius žingsnius, svarbu ivertinti, kaip vartotojai ja suvokia, siekdami nustatyti, kaip jai seksis prigyti, ir būsimasias pletros strategijas. Tačiau formalaus metodo VMTA vertinti kol kas nera. Šiame darbe pristatoma strategija, taikyta tarptautiniame moksliniu tyrimu bendradarbiavimo projekte (EURASIA), nes norima ivertinti specialiai tam sukurta VMTA, pavadinta VEBER, naudojant gerai žinomus kompiuterio ir žmogaus saveikos principus.

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Section: Virtual Research Environmentsmentioning

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Section: The Virtual Environment For Built Environment Researchmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Human‐computer Interaction Principles Based Framework to Assess the User Perception of Web Based Virtual Research Environments

Keraminiyage

Amaratunga

Haigh

2009

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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“…Lots of countries are paying more and more attention to domain knowledge service platform, and some large, national level research projects and practical activities have been carried up. There are some systems or software tools that we can refer to, such as VIVO based on ontology [3,4], VRE based on SOA [5,6], Harvard Catalyst, Sciologer of Columbia University [7], SKE of CAS [8], the open source software of virtual learning environment SaKai, [9][10][11], etc. These construction experiences provide a good foundation for this study.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on Construction of Agricultural Domain Knowledge Service Platform Based on Ontology

Kou

Zhao

Xian

2015

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VIII

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Abstract. Scientific researchers' increasing demand for knowledge service under the new situation, makes it urgent to embed information service into user research process, ad build an incorporate knowledge platform that integrates knowledge, skills, tools, and services of certain professional field. This paper put forward the technical solution of agricultural domain knowledge service platform based on ontology, including resource organization based on ontology, platform design and development. The construction progress of ontology base and service functions based on ontology are shown by application practice in rice domain.

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“…These activities are often referred as "E-Research". The platforms supporting such work are referred to as Virtual Research Environments (VRE) [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

PAMS – A New Collaborative Framework for Agent-Based Simulation of Complex Systems

Nguyen-Trong¹,

Marilleau²,

Ho³

2008

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract.Major researches in the domain of complex systems are interdisciplinary, collaborative and geographically distributed. The purpose of our work is to explore a new collaborative approach that facilitates scientist's interactions during the modelling and simulating process. The originality of the presented approach is to consider models and simulators as a board of the collaboration: a shared object manipulated by a group of scientists. Agent-based simulations are powerful tools for studying complex systems. In this context, we develop a collaborative platform dedicated to agent-based simulation (PAMS). This new environment integrates common collaborative tools (e.g. videoconferencing, instant messaging, whiteboard) and specific tools to share and manipulate models, simulators, experiments and results... The current version of PAMS is based technologies coming from distributed systems. Today PAMS has been designed to support major agent based simulation frameworks. This paper aims to give an overview of the PAMS environment by defining the collaborating approach, the framework architecture and an example of its utilization.

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Web-Based Virtual Research Environments (VRE): Support Collaboration in e-Science

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

A Human‐computer Interaction Principles Based Framework to Assess the User Perception of Web Based Virtual Research Environments

A Human‐computer Interaction Principles Based Framework to Assess the User Perception of Web Based Virtual Research Environments

Research on Construction of Agricultural Domain Knowledge Service Platform Based on Ontology

PAMS – A New Collaborative Framework for Agent-Based Simulation of Complex Systems

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