Development of mass-customization engine for house finishing / Norkhairiah Abu Bakar

Nowadays, people try to grip with new technology of computer especially in expert
system revolution. The consistent knowledge as well as the effectiveness of giving
solutions increases the demand of developing expert systems in many areas. For
examples, the successful of construction term in the real life may lead to the
involvement of expert system mechanism. The first purpose of developing the Mass-
Customization Engine for House's Finishing is to satisfy user requirement especially
in customizing the house's finishing. Secondly is to construct model of information
flow in customizing house base on current model of information flow of mass
customization. The knowledge in this system is represented using rules; while the
forward inference technique and backtracking technique is used for the reasoning
process which is the backtracking technique can customize user's option. The system
also provides the explanation facilities that include explaining facility that give the
explanation on certain term on the interfaces. Although the system is successfiilly
implemented, there are still weaknesses and the future enhancing are support.