19^th International CODATA Conference
Category: Data Quality

Agent Oriented Approach for Materials Data Evaluation Using XML-based Materials Data Systems

Prof. Yoshio MONMA (monma@env.kochi-tech.ac.jp), Dept. of Environmental Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Tetsuya TSUJIKAMI (tujikami@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp), Dept. of Mechanical and Systems Eng., Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Japan
Dr. Hiroshi YOSHIZU (yoshizu.hiroshi@nims.go.jp), Ecomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Kohmei HALADA, Director (halada.kohmei@nims.go.jp), Ecomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan


Towards more flexible and versatile applications extracting data and information on the Internet, a new approach is emerging: the central idea is from the object-oriented to the agent-oriented. In future the actively mobile agents could collect the necessary data and information on the net and proper evaluation would be carried out either locally or remotely depending on the analyst's expertise.

In this paper we focus on how to aggregate the heterogeneous materials data distributed in various materials data systems. Our interest is to combine the query of materials data and the materials data evaluation intelligently. As a case study we examined the XML based materials databases for creep and fatigue and data evaluation modules written as the Java applet/servlet. A prototyping experience will be presented.