The concept of cognitive interaction with a virtual computer laboratory based on visual models and expert systems

Belov Mikhai A., Kryukov Yury А., Lupanov Pavel E., Mikheev Maksim А., Cheremisina Evgeniya N.

The article discusses the concept of virtual infrastructure management based on visual models and expert system in the environment of virtual computer lab, which is a powerful innovative tool for training IT-professionals, created and successfully operated by the experts of the System Analysis and Control Department at the Dubna State University. Improvement of the management system of the virtual computer lab is aimed at reducing the volume of requirements for the necessary basic knowledge, skills and possessions of students as a threshold of entry to ensure productive and efficient work with information and computing resources. Creating and removing virtual machines, changing their configuration, designing the necessary network topology to ensure interaction among components of training distributed software solutions, is accomplished by simple manipulation of graphical objects through a web interface or communication based on natural language, providing structural interaction between real hardware and software components of the virtual computer laboratory, as well as visual representation of the pipeline of the necessary technological operations.

Keywords:virtual computing lab, virtualization, containerization, cloud computing, web services, IT training, education, innovations in education, e-learning, сcognitive technologies, finite automata theory, expert systems in education, knowledge management, big data, intellectual analysis, policy management