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Brussels. The research project INTELLECT projected its first Review in Brussels, which takes place approx. every 6 months. After a half day presentations and a following discussion and their evaluation, now the conversion of the specifications can begin. Since all partners of the project were present and presented and defended the project jointly.

09:30 - 09:45	Reviewers private meeting
09:45 - 10:15	Project management (30 minutes) Overview of the project status Detailed work progress Use of resources Next six months workplan
10:15 - 10:45	Requirements analysis results (D03)
10:45 - 10:55	Coffee break
10:55 - 11:25	First market survey (D04)
11:25 - 11:55	Software functional specification handbook (D07)
11:55 - 12:25	Module integration specification (D08)
12:25 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:00	Dissemination and use plan (D06)
14:00 - 14:30	Workplan and overview of WP03
14:30 - 15:00	Reviewer's private meeting
15:00 - 15:30	Reviewer's comments

After all partners had prepared beforehand intensively one day for the review, was introduced to the three consultants and the European Union Officer Jorge Gasós the project in different presentations. The following consultants were present:

1. Antonio Marques, Director of New Technologies in ETRA I+D S.A.; Academic qualification: MSc in Physics with Electronics and Computing, Universidad de Valencia, 1988: Antonio Marques plays an important role with the definition of technology strategies of its enterprise, which is a high-tech unit of an industrial's group with more than 500 employees and a conversion of more than 45 millions euro per year has.

2. Ralph Traphöner, Software developer, Consultant, project leader and manager for tec:inno GmbH in Kaiserslautern; Study of computer science and business administration at the University of Kaiserslautern focused on practical applications: Ralph Traphoener is an author or CO author of more than 30 scientific publications in the area of the Technical Diagnosis, Machine Learning and Case based Reasoning. It is member of the German Society OF computer Science's Special Interest Groups in Machine Learning, Case-Based Reasoning and electronics Commerce. He operates actively on interfaces between research and application-innovative IT structure. Today his main area is the work on CBR APPLICATIONS over Internet and the areas of E- Commerce and Knowledge Management.

3. Monica Bordegoni, Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Parma: Monica Bordegoni is active in the research, within the management Group of the Targeted Project on Robotics of CNR. It has international experience and operated among other things at RAL in England, CWI in the Netherlands and at the GMD in Germany. She operated likewise already as a consultant for Esprit projects within the area of the Multimedia systems. Their main points of research contain: Geometric modelling, user computer Interaction, Multimedia/ Multimodal user INTERFACE, tactile interaction with flexible models, modelling and interaction techniques with digital prototypes, Virtual Reality of systems and applications as well as CAD applications. She wrote on international level over 70 scientific publications.

These consultants were suited for the Review not only because of their activities and experiences. They were also prepared very well. The following presentations were detailed and content wise discussed:

After the consultants discussed during all lectures, comments and remarks with all project partners, they finally further-discussed behind locked doors. Finally the results of consultants were summarised and a rework phase was determined for October 15th. This rework was concluded likewise positively and should help to clarify open questions.

Overall much positively stand out that all of the partners weld together to a good team and the consortium possesses the correct mixture concerning the know-how. Likewise the presentations as well as the professional representation of all involved were emphasised positively.

The still missing target group as well as the not yet available synergy with other European Union projects with similar contents were marked. Likewise the consultants referred to the focus of the project, spending not as much time regarding in the questions after security, the payment or the development of a new e-Shop-system. In opinion of the consultants the main innovations of the project are the3D-Visualisation and the possibility of the configuration within a 3D-Environment. To these main points of work the partners should refer mainly.

All final Deliverables were accepted. Rework will be integrated into newer reports. The consortium stressed that it will already thought over a Business plan during the project, what normally occurs after the end of a project from the European Union. Then also a target group can finally be determined, what will be extremely difficult before creation of a software product. All open points of discussion were clarified until October 15th . The next Review will take place at the end of April 2001.