Uma arquitetura orientada a agentes para gerenciamento, busca e recuperação de artefatos científicos

Abstract

Scientific Computing is a multidisciplinary field that goes beyond the use of computer as machine where researchers write simple texts, presentations or store analysis and results of their experiments. Considering the increase use of computer resources applied to experiments and simulations, it is notable that the research groups are at a new level of scientific computing, well represented through the domain of e-Science. The e-Science concept is closely related to the process of computational modeling. The significance of computational modeling in scientific computing is the fact that it is possible to study the performance of larger scientific models without the necessity of implement them in reality. This work aims to propose an architecture, based on intelligent agents, to search and recover scientific artifacts, generated within research projects related to scientific computing. The SASAgent architecture is proposed and a case study is detailed in order to examine the feasibility of SASAgent. Preliminary results suggest that the proposed architecture is promising to meet requirements found in e-Science projects.