Environment for Integrated Professional Industrial Research

Importance of research in applied informatics has dramatically increased by a new role of research results in this area at central control of industrial and commercial products and other configurations. Joining to the prevailing concept of integration in this area, integration of research in the whole innovation cycle was one of the main objectives at founding the Virtual Research Laboratory (VRL). In this paper, several key VRL related issues are discussed which are integration of model representations in the Experimental Model of Research (EMR) for all research activities, research in geographically independently accessed collaborative space in the cloud, and model level integration of research as part of research project at industrial companies and institutions. EMR applies most advanced reactive modeling, realistic simulation, and cloud organized collaborations. Generative, autonomous and knowledge driven modeling, data science driven machine learning, natural language processing for human communication with models, and many other leading methods are applied. The feasibility of VRL research program is guaranteed by the own platform configured in the 3DX platform by the Dassault Systémes S.A. in their cloud and under professional platform management. VRL is an operating laboratory and is ready for accommodation of research projects in multidisciplinary and multiphysical applied informatics mainly to serve high automation. This paper introduces and discusses capabilities, resources, and essential modeling at VRL.