VIRTUAL LABORATORY WORKSHOPS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS USING THE CONCEPT OF CLOUD COMPUTING
This paper describes the iPSE approach to the organization of the virtual laboratory workshops (VLW) infrastructure used in multidisciplinary educational courses and. This approach permits to neutralize the effects of the knowledge erosion, the illusion of interactivity and information redundancy. The paper offers the wording of the requirements of providing infrastructure VLW, which is based on the composite applications with the use of several computing packages. The requirements include the advanced technologies of development and implementation of remote services and information security. The VLW information model is formulated as a directed acyclic graph. This model is interpreted in the context of the educational process. Realization of the approach is performed with the application of the platform CLAVIRE, which provides the several classes of users´ interfaces. There are presented the VLW examples in the fields of nanotechnology and modeling in social and human sciences.