Information logistic applications for information-on-demand scenarios: concepts and experiences from WIND project

The field of information logistics aims at developing concepts, technologies and applications for need-oriented information supply. Information-on-demand services are a typical application area for information logistics, as they have to fulfill user needs with respect to content, location, time and quality. The application context is the implementation of the weather-information-on-demand service WIND, providing warnings about hazardous weather conditions to end customers. The major technical aspects presented are (1) an information logistical framework consisting of a set of configurable and adaptive software components and (2) a robust and scalable event-reaction mechanism as part of the framework. Experiences from the WIND project include aspects of system design, development process and operations.