I-Corps: FloWorks - A Modern Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Data Modeling and Analysis

创新队项目的目标是探索作为生态预测网络共享的一部分而开发的软件工具的商业可行性。俄克拉荷马大学的IT信息学团队开发了一套灵活的模块化软件组件，用于数据编目、建模和分析/可视化。创新队课程和相关资金将用于：i)快速探索具有数据管理和建模挑战的目标市场；Ii)为小企业的发展制定一个可行的策略；iii)将现有软件工具打包并增强为收费的托管软件即服务（SaaS）产品，以满足对数据收集和建模的明确需求。随着数据集的增长，有必要为传统的非计算学科提供新的计算工具和范式。扩大应用该工具集的商业机会将继续提高这些工具的可用性和研究能力，同时扩大生态预测和相关科学的商业应用途径。拟议的活动，为现有的软件研究基础设施开发商业应用，将在几个领域产生更广泛的影响。它将为这些研究软件工具提供一个重要的用户社区扩展，使有机会提高工具的可用性和健壮性。如果成功，这项活动将提高软件工具的商业可行性，从而提高该地区的研究竞争力。

This goal of this Innovation Corps project is to explore the commercial viability of software tools developed as part of the Cybercommons for Ecological Forecasting. The IT Informatics Team at The University of Oklahoma has developed a flexible suite of modular software components for data cataloging, modeling and analysis/visualization. The Innovation Corps curriculum and associated funding will be used to: i) rapidly explore target markets with data management and modeling challenges; ii) create an actionable strategy for developing a small business; iii) packaging and enhancing existing software tools as a fee-based hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, which can meet an expressed need for data collection and modeling. As data sets grow larger, it becomes necessary to present new computational tools and paradigms to traditionally non-computational disciplines. Expanding the commercial opportunities for applying this toolset will continue to advance the usability and research capabilities of the tools, while expanding avenues for commercial application of ecological forecasting and related science. The proposed activity, developing commercial applications for an existing software research infrastructure, will have broader impacts in several areas. It will provide a significant expansion of the user community for these research software tools, enabling the opportunity to enhance usability and robustness of the tools. If successful, this activity will improve the commercial viability of software tools, thus enhancing the research competitiveness of the region.