Looking for Business

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Looking for Business

• Zheng Zhen, Stephane Vaucher, Jean Vaucher

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Introduction

• Call for Tenders (CFTs)
• Searching CFTs on web
• Focused searching
• Useful software packages
• Results and conclusions

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PDF document content

• General rules and regulations
• Specific terms
• Closing dates
• Requirements
• Form for submission

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• Famous Sites
• In Canda --- MERX,
• http//www.merx.com/
• In US. --- FedBizOpps.gov,
• http//www.FedBizOpps.gov/
• In European ---TED.
• http//www.ted.com/

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• Problems ?
• -- various formats
• -- different standards
• -- huge volumes
• -- incomplete
• -- static

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• Solution
• collecting,
• classifying
• CFTs
• automatically

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Searching CFTs on web
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Agent architecture
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Typical HUB page
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Typical mixed page
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Call for Tenders (CFTs)

• Example

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