TY - CHAP
T1 - Collaborative Virtual Research Environment to Support Integration & Steering of Multi-site Experiments
AU - Tsaneva, D.K.
AU - Tan, K.T.W.
AU - Daley, M.W.
AU - Avis, N.J.
AU - Withers, P.J.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This chapter presents a prototype Virtual Research Environment (VRE), which orchestrates and exposes a set of collaborative tools to support multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams. The focus is to support and enable teams of material scientists, academic, and industrial engineers, as well as instrument scientists to work together in undertaking, compiling, analyzing, interrogating, and visualizing multiple experiments on components of high complexity at different sites. The developed VRE aims to enhance the student learning/training experience and to identify exciting opportunities that arise during the experiment that are currently sometimes missed. The VRE deployment is also expected to reduce the number of experimental errors. It is based on a collaborative Web portal providing a number of Web Services for the material scientists. One of these, the “Shared Workspace,” is based on the JSR-168 standard to allow extra portability between the developed web portlets and other web portal framework within the VRE community. The enabled features of Web Services are to be consumed via Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) by any JSR 168 compliant or non JSR 168 compliant, Java or .NET-based Web Portal. This chapter reports the initial developments and findings in the deployment and analysis of the prototype VRE.
AB - This chapter presents a prototype Virtual Research Environment (VRE), which orchestrates and exposes a set of collaborative tools to support multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams. The focus is to support and enable teams of material scientists, academic, and industrial engineers, as well as instrument scientists to work together in undertaking, compiling, analyzing, interrogating, and visualizing multiple experiments on components of high complexity at different sites. The developed VRE aims to enhance the student learning/training experience and to identify exciting opportunities that arise during the experiment that are currently sometimes missed. The VRE deployment is also expected to reduce the number of experimental errors. It is based on a collaborative Web portal providing a number of Web Services for the material scientists. One of these, the “Shared Workspace,” is based on the JSR-168 standard to allow extra portability between the developed web portlets and other web portal framework within the VRE community. The enabled features of Web Services are to be consumed via Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) by any JSR 168 compliant or non JSR 168 compliant, Java or .NET-based Web Portal. This chapter reports the initial developments and findings in the deployment and analysis of the prototype VRE.
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-008045157-2/50027-4
DO - 10.1016/B978-008045157-2/50027-4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780080451572
T3 - Intelligent Production Machines and Systems - 2nd I*PROMS Virtual International Conference 3-14 July 2006
SP - 120
EP - 125
BT - Intelligent Production Machines and Systems
A2 - , D.T. Pham
A2 - , E.E. Eldukhri
A2 - , A.J. Soroka
PB - Elsevier BV
ER -