Customer Preference Based Product Configuration and Retrieving for Customization Using Circle Set

Recently, the development of design and manufacturing system for mass customization has been growing rapidly. In the market, many companies try to provide toolkits called as ‘configurator’ which directly enables to configure the products and services by the user. These toolkits take the metaphor for converting from user preference to the numerical value. For example, the web based configurators take radio buttons or check buttons for capturing the user preferences. This method is not suitable in the on-line shopping. To solve this problem, we propose a new circle set based configuration algorithm for on-line shopping. In our method, the circle set based configuration and the search algorithm find the best configuration or near best from the given product catalogs in DB. Some experimental results are shown for the validity of our method.