INTERACTIVE TYPE PRODUCT ADAPTATION INFERENCE METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PRODUCT ADAPTATION INFERENCE PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To infer an appropriate customer and to provide a product provider with the information in a system for dealing products through a WWW server on the Internet.;SOLUTION: Product relating information expressed by a directory form and a product matrix for indicating the presence/absence of relation among all the products are prepared. Relating to the directory information of the product, a product category relating to an inference object product is inputted. It is defined that it is related to a node under the product directory of the inputted category and '1' is raised in the product matrix. The set of the products relating to the inference object product is obtained. The similarity degree of the respective elements of the product set and product information referred to on WWW by respective customers is obtained and values for which the number of times of reference is multiplied with the similarity degree are all added relating to each product information and obtained as adaptation. The customers are arranged in the order of the adaptation and displayed on an information provider picture.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO