2005-12-12
Dear Sir/Madam,

Based on the experiences of EU tender applications some
member of Cognitron Consortium; which has members from
15 EU countries now works on a new project
called;Tender Expert Assistant; (shortly: TExAss System).
This system integrates a data-base, a knowledge-base and a
content management portal framework.

The project aimed to develop such an online expert system
that operates as an intelligent telecommuting tool and helps
managing EU tenders (like IST & eContentplus) from the
scratch on the level of multi-country consortiums (both
coordinators and members).

We would like to found partners from all of the EU countries
who could participate in the successful realization, testing
and enrichment of the TexAss System among their
preparation for the 2006 year IST and eContent tenders.

Shall you be interested in our proposal - please do not
hesitate to contact:

Dr. eng. Csaba ÁRKOSSY
Cognitron Cluster & Consortium Leader
arkossy@tvnetwork.hu
http://cognitron.net, consortium@cognitron.net
Budapest, Hungary

Technical-Partnership Quest:

Cognitron Network is an international network of
organizations, which are involved into European co-
operations and applications in the fields of knowledge
technology and content management.

Originally we were starting to organize Cognitron Cluster &
Consortium to accomplish the EuroConTech (European
Knowledge and Content Management Technology) open
project proposal.

European Commission / Information Society and Media
Directorate General has been published their
eContentplus;Call for proposal in the September of 2005.

Replying to this call we have been organized the Open
EuroContent; consortium ; with the members of Cognitron
Network ; and present our project proposal. In this tender
consortium there are 16 organizations (universities, firms)
from 9 countries under the coordination of University Lecce
Italy.

Based on the experiences of EU tender applications some
member of this consortium now works on a new project
called: ;Tender Expert Assistant; (shortly: TExAss System).

This system integrates a data-base, a knowledge-base and a
content management portal framework.

The project aimed to develop such an online expert system
that operates as an intelligent telecommuting tool and helps
managing EU tenders (like IST & eContentplus) from the
scratch.

Portal framework and knowledge-base provided by
EuroConTech;s Polyhistor, which runs on a super computer
in Budapest (hosted by Silihost Inc.). With Polyhistor we ran
the ;Multicultural Euroforum; mega-portal too (see
http://cognitron.net).

According the program ; announced by European
Commission / Information Society and Media Directorate
General ; of the eContentpus project the ;Publication of the
call for proposal 2006. is to be due in the July of 2006. For
this call we wish to respond in two ways.

In case of the first way we made Tender Expert Assistant
done until the spring of 2006, test it and fill its knowledge-
bases, etc. We are planning that Tender Expert Assistant will
be set up in the June of 2006 as a telecommuting online
tool and service provider.

In case of the second way we actively participate in the
applications (IST & eContentplus) too.

Now we are looking for cooperating partners from all of the
EU who:

- are going to compete in 2006 and wish to try Tender
Expert Assistant.
- wish to participate in Cognitron Network’s applications as
consortium members.
- already has an accepted project in IST or eContentplus
and could give permission to integrate their project as a
successful pattern, model – whole projects or just parts – into
Tender Expert Assistants knowledge-base according to the
Best Practice Collection. (These partners will be able to use
TExAss;s services freely for a year.)
- wish to use Tender Expert Assistant in their tender
consultant works or wish to teach its usage in diferent
languages and could enrich its capabilities, functions with
their ideas, recommendations.
(AM-W)