Fraunhofer Institute for Software and System Engineering
The Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) is part of the Fraunhofer Society, Germany's largest organisation for applied research with more than 12,000 employees and an annual turnover well above € 1 billion. Fraunhofer ISST is based in Berlin and Dortmund. Its 150 employees conduct research in the fields of information logistics and continuous software engineering.
Information logistics refers to methods and processes for targeted information delivery. Research goal is the situationalised and personalised distribution of data to the right place at the appropriate time. Since 2000, Fraunhofer ISST has been involved in the development of numerous information logistics engines, such as for early warning systems, or in the e-Health sector.
Continuous Software Engineering, the Institute's second research focus, comprises the development of concepts, methods and architectures for the construction of durable software systems. In order to cope with rapidly changing environments, these software systems have to meet flexibility, scalability and adaptability criteria - challenges that Fraunhofer ISST helps to meet. Services offered by the institute include innovation consulting, the preparation of expert opinions, or long-term co-operations for the development of architectures and software prototypes.
Research within the SITUMET project is conducted by Fraunhofer ISST's Location-based services department under the direction of Prof. Dr. Agnès Voisard. The institute contributes to the project its expertise in the development of situation-specific mobile applications. Research goal is the seamless but yet privacy-preserving analysis of user situations in order to facilitate tailor-made information deliveries. This will be achieved by application-specific modelling approaches which allow the definition of varying situation granularity levels. The multidimensional description approach used in the project allows for a complete description of the situation, thus going beyond the context information often used in existing applications.
As Fraunhofer ISST is conducting applied research, the institute aims to transfer its research results into successful commercial applications. One successful example for this is the early warning system WIND which currently has more than 350,000 users in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Fraunhofer ISST also participated in numerous national and international research projects like FLAME, COMPASS and TRANSIT where platforms for location-based information logistics at large-scale events have been developed and tested.
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Information logistics refers to methods and processes for targeted information delivery. Research goal is the situationalised and personalised distribution of data to the right place at the appropriate time. Since 2000, Fraunhofer ISST has been involved in the development of numerous information logistics engines, such as for early warning systems, or in the e-Health sector.
Continuous Software Engineering, the Institute's second research focus, comprises the development of concepts, methods and architectures for the construction of durable software systems. In order to cope with rapidly changing environments, these software systems have to meet flexibility, scalability and adaptability criteria - challenges that Fraunhofer ISST helps to meet. Services offered by the institute include innovation consulting, the preparation of expert opinions, or long-term co-operations for the development of architectures and software prototypes.
Research within the SITUMET project is conducted by Fraunhofer ISST's Location-based services department under the direction of Prof. Dr. Agnès Voisard. The institute contributes to the project its expertise in the development of situation-specific mobile applications. Research goal is the seamless but yet privacy-preserving analysis of user situations in order to facilitate tailor-made information deliveries. This will be achieved by application-specific modelling approaches which allow the definition of varying situation granularity levels. The multidimensional description approach used in the project allows for a complete description of the situation, thus going beyond the context information often used in existing applications.
As Fraunhofer ISST is conducting applied research, the institute aims to transfer its research results into successful commercial applications. One successful example for this is the early warning system WIND which currently has more than 350,000 users in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Fraunhofer ISST also participated in numerous national and international research projects like FLAME, COMPASS and TRANSIT where platforms for location-based information logistics at large-scale events have been developed and tested.
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Fraunhofer ISST
Prof. Agnès Voisard
Steinplatz 2
D-10623 Berlin
mail: Michael.Klafft@isst.fraunhofer.de
phone: +49-30-24306-0
web: www.isst.fhg.de