An Efficient Distributed Weather Data Sharing System Based on Agent
Tinghuai Ma1, Hao Cao1, Donghai Guan1, SungYoung Lee2
1Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology University, China
2Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea
1Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology University, China
2Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Abstract: This paper presents a multi-agent based framework for managing, sharing, and accessing weather data in a geographical distributed environment. There are two tiers in this framework including national central centre and local centre. In each node, the services for querying and accessing datasets based on agent environment are designed, which includes data resource agent, local management system, and metadata system. Information retrieval can be conduced either locally or distributed, by querying local weather data or exploiting global metadata respectively. With a variety of advantages, this proposed platform is designed to provide a useful platform for research on weather data sharing system in a national area.
Keywords: Weather data, sharing, distributed, agent-based, data management.
Received July 27, 2009; accepted May 20, 2010