gCube Virtual Research Environments Designer

The gCube VRE Designer supports the creation and management of VREs by offering mechanisms for VRE definition, deployment and operation. A wizard-based user interface guides the VRE definition process. The whole process consists in steps allowing the designer to provide the system with information on the VRE under creation. The VRE designer isolate and organise the VRE constituents, i.e. (i) the set of logical components that can be used when designing a VRE, (ii) the set of physical components that by implementing the logical components contribute to implement the VRE and (iii) the search strategy exploited to accomplish the generation task.