Providing On-line Trade Fair Services with FAIRWIS.

The EU funded FAIRWIS project (Trade Fair Web-based Information Services) aims at offering on-line innovative services to support the management of trade fairs, either real or Web-based virtual fairs. One of the main differences with respect to what is currently available on Web sites is that these sites have static data that it is difficult to update and to put on-line in an appropriate format. FAIRWIS has a real time connection with an underlying database to guarantee coherence of data and up-to-date status. Moreover, the available data about companies involved in the fair are exploited to provide company managers a valuable support for improving their business. This paper describes some of the innovative features of the system under development.