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Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for Social Science Research Collaboration: The Service Science Approach

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Exploring Services Science (IESS 2015)

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Research collaboration in a globalized world has become one of the most important challenges for higher-education today. Collaboration between researchers all over the world is still an intricate and difficult challenge, which is the motive for this study that aims at filling this gap in the field of social science research. Based on the review of the literature, we propose a conceptual framework for designing a cyberinfrastructure to promote the collaboration among researchers across institutions. We present an example to illustrate the application of the framework that supports international collaboration between a research laboratory in a developed country and its partners in developing countries. Future work and research directions are also suggested in order to apply and extend the framework at a broader scale.

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The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their valuable suggestions for improvement on a previous version of this article. The authors also express their sincerely thanks to the FRQSC (Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture) of the Government of Quebec, Canada for the partial financial support for this research.

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    Thang Le Dinh,  Van Thai Ho, Theophile Serge Nomo & Ayi Ayayi

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Le Dinh, T., Ho, .T., Nomo, T.S., Ayayi, A. (2015). Towards a Cyberinfrastructure for Social Science Research Collaboration: The Service Science Approach. In: Nóvoa, H., Drăgoicea, M. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 201. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14980-6_4

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