Model Organized Theoretical and Experimental Research in Collaborative Space

Recent advancements in high automated engineering essentially changed the requirements against and technical and organizational scenario around engineering related research. These changes came mainly from contextual integration, moving activities and content items into cloud organized virtual space, integration of theory, practice and experience, introduction of the three paradigm research, system level global problem solving, and all-in-one research environment. This paper introduces new research concept, methodology and laboratory technology to fulfill the above requirements and establish integration of aspects, collaboration and communication in high level information technology supported and research dedicated collaborative space. This new scientific-industrial research organizes content items in experimental model that has generic, contextual, reactive, and autonomous characteristics. The Virtual Research Laboratory (VRL) was founded for the implementation of the above research and it is now available to start with PhD student projects. VRL applies high end definition and management capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE engineering platform in cloud providing renewable virtual technology and all cloud resources as service from professionally platform management source. Possibility worldwide participation in collaborative space of research and connection this space to related collaborative spaces give chance for VRL participants to join world level PhD research projects and work on actual problems. In this way, authentic global assistance can be available in the collaborative space. This paper reveals requirements and solutions in program of the VRL, introduces the proposed collaborative space and experimental model organized research. Following this, practice of organizing research at VRL applying capabilities of cloud serviced engineering modeling platform (EMP) is introduced. Finally, challenges at starting PhD research program at VRL are discussed.