Environment for Collaborative Development and Execution of Virtual Laboratory Applications

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents the solutions for a user interface environment which have been developed within the ViroLab Virtual Laboratory to enable developers and medical researchers to develop and execute experiments. Experiments require support in form of a script editor easily extendible by a number of additional functions related to the functionality of the Virtual Laboratory, like sharing experiments, and an experiment management mechanism which enables the experiments to be executed with a number of facilities allowing, e.g. tracking the execution, logging errors. Moreover, two user groups, developers and users, need to collaborate to improve experiments and introduce more refinements to the research conducted, which imposes many requirements on the environment which becomes the main collaboration platform for the researchers. The work identifies these requirements in the domain of medical sciences and proposes solutions for efficient and convenient collaboration.

Discrete Simulation of the Remote Access to the Resources of a Virtual Research Laboratory

“…The need for collaborative using of different information, knowledge and learning resources increases and defines new requirements to the global Information Society for creating distributed systems for effective information servicing and e-learning [1] [2] .…”

Deterministic modeling and evaluation of a virtual research laboratory by using Petri nets

“…Another important issue discussed is the user interface (UI). A solution for a UI environment developed for the need of virtual laboratory organization is discussed in (Funika et al, 2008). The specialization of the concrete virtual lab and carried out experiments require support in form of a script editor easily extendible by a number of additional functions related to the functionality (sharing experiments, experiment management mechanism, logging errors, etc.).…”