Distributed, Integrated, and Collaborative Research Environment (DiCore): An Architectural Design

In this paper, we propose to develop a Distributed, Integrated, and Collaborative Research Environment (DiCore) that may enable a new generation of scientific discovery, learning, and innovation in all scientific areas. DiCore seamlessly integrates a set of carefully selected high quality web-based software tools with ajax-style rich user interfaces. These tools collectively satisfy the daily research needs of researchers. Underneath DiCore is a set of intelligent machine learning and data mining algorithms that are designed to serve researchers, educators, and students in different aspects, such as recommending reading materials based on researchers´ interests, and suggesting working research groups. DiCore is a potential enabling research and educational environment that may satisfy our next generation collaborative research and educational needs. A wide range of new collaborative research and educational projects in all areas of computing become possible under DiCore.