PROCEEDINGS

for the 19th International CODATA Conference
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
NEW HORIZONS FOR SCIENCE
Berlin, Germany — 7-10 November 2004

Satellite Symposium for Materials Informatics and its Evolution

CODATA website

CODATA 2004 Proceedings Index
Keynotes
Plenaries
Data Archiving
Data Quality
Data Visualization
E-Learning
Environmental Informatics
Gas Hydrates
Infoscience Today
Interoperability
Knowledge Discovery
Multi-disciplinary Data Projects
Open Scientific Communications
Publication and Citation of Scientific Data
Scientific Data for Economic Development
Scientific Informatics in EurAsia
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Posters

Submission/Publication Guidelines

Organization Committees
The International Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee
The Local Organization Committee

Scientific Program
Program at a Glance
Final Detailed Program Book [large pdf file - you may want to right-click and save to your computer]
General Information About the Program

 

Invitation to Satellite Symposium for Materials Informatics and its Evolution
On November 7, 2004 in Berlin, Germany

DRAFT Program

We are now experiencing major "phase changes" in materials informatics, in common with all scientific fields today. The Symposium for Materials Informatics and its Evolution is designed to develop new perspectives on future collaboration in materials informatics. By meeting in conjunction with CODATA 2004 "The Information Society: New Horizons for Science," we hope to bring together materials informatics experts on an international basis to develop an action plan.

In reviewing the numerous activities of the last two decades and looking at new horizons of opportunities, the following general requirements of materials informatics are still essential and important as triggers for further discussion and future actions.

  • More valuable data
  • More accurate and cost-effective data
  • More speed in access
  • More systematic data collections
  • More flexible functionality
  • More effective browsing and finding tools, if possible for discoveries.

These requirements are part of the necessary and sufficient conditions for better materials data systems. Many experts on materials informatics have made elaborate efforts to produce better products incrementally, namely, by intelligent gateways, metadata definition and standards, data exchange formats such as STEP, ASTM XML, and MatML, data directories, virtual laboratories, discovery tool kits, interoperability, the Data GRID and so on.

  • Perhaps the greatest opportunity is integrating materials informatics into e-science. The challenges are many.
  • What additional activity is required from the materials informatics community to offer the tools, databases and functionality necessary for e-science?
  • How do these requirements relate to developments in chemical informatics, bioinformatics and computer-assisted engineering?
  • How should the international materials informatics community work together?

This symposium will start with reviews of the opportunity and challenges and move to intensive discussions aimed at identifying plans for collaboration under the auspices of CODATA and other groups. This symposium is closely associated with another symposium on materials design "Challenges of Data Science to Proactive Engineering", held in Tokyo during Oct.24-26, 2004.

Expected Keynotes (tentative) Sunday Morning

  • Perspectives and Articulations of Materials Informatics by K.Rajan and S.Iwata
    • Individual-centered features: Using IT tailor systems individually
    • Beyond the knowledge divide: Research collaboratories and more
    • Innovative e-Science
    • Collaboration by experts in different fields
    • Collaboration to establish "public goods" key issues such as IPR
    • Business incentives and scientific qualities
    • Balancing profits and science
  • States of Arts and Future Challenges in Asia, Europe, US and other countries
    By representatives of participants

Expected Outcomes by Group Discussions in the afternoon

  • Ideas and collaboration opportunities: To be discussed in a session at CODATA 2004
  • Proposals for a CODATA working group on materials informatics
  • Identifying new educational opportunities in data science, including breaching the digital divide
  • Papers for CODATA Journal of Data Science (one special issue)
  • Creating new business and employment opportunities for materials data and information

<Ideas as straw men>
*Data-driven materials design(discovery tools, virtual laboratories, web based design by international collaboration)
*Perfect engineering based on materials data systems(diagnosis, maintenance and life prediction, and waste managements)
*Design and management of sustainability by materials data systems(eco-materials, landscape design, data sharing and decision making)

Reports at a session of CODATA 2004 by chairpersons of the Group Discussions

Important URLs (Please improve the following list from your viewpoints!)
http:/www.codata.org
http://cosmic.rpi.edu
http://mits.nims.go.jp/db_top_eng.htm
http://www.nist.gov/practiceguides
http://xml.coverpages.org/matML.html
http://www.matml.org/

Expected Participants : All key persons in this field.

Organizing Committee (draft)
Krishna Rajan (RPI, USA)
Marcelle Gaune-Escard (Univ-MRS, France)
Tetsuo Mohri (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Ronald G.Munro (NIST, USA)
Koichi Yagi (NIMS, Japan)
Kohmei Harada (NIMS, Japan)
Fedor Kuznetsov (IIC, Russia)
Krishan Lal (CODATA International)
Paul Mezey (CODATA International)
Shuichi Iwata (CODATA International)

Editors for the special issue
Shuichi Iwata
Johann Gasteiger
Krishna Rajan

Contact Persons:
Masayoshi Yamazaki
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
E-mail: yamazaki.masayoshi@nims.go.jp

DRAFT Program

 
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