A Conceptual Model of a Virtual Collaboration Space for Bat Scientists

Abstract

The paper presents a conceptual model for development of a Virtual Collaboration Space for field scientists who research bats. The Space is designed as a Cloud Environment incorporating intelligent data structures where the Semantic Web concepts are applied. Agent-Oriented Programming Paradigm is used as a base and BDI Intelligent Software Assistants as an additional abstraction layer of communication between the Collaboration Space and the users. Furthermore, a data science algorithms would be applied in order to support the scientist on daily basis for their "on field" tasks.