Consideration of Ecosystem for ICME

As the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) emerges as a hot topic, computation, experimentation, and digital database are identified as its three major components. Efforts are being actively made from various aspects to bring ICME to reality. However, many factors that would affect ICME development still remain vague. This paper is an attempt to discuss the needs for establishing a database centered ecosystem to facilitate ICME development.