“…In the example above, a consumer using such a product search tool, and who provided preferences on price ($7000 to $8000) and mileage (25000mi to 75000mi) would be presented with a result set with only those offers that fully satisfy all the stated criteria, that is, are both within the price and mileage range. This approach is often referred to as product filtration using hard-constraints or logical filtering (Mirzadeh & Ricci, 2007) and has many limitations acknowledged in the literature (Dabrowski & Acton, 2010b;Felfernig, Mairitsch, Mandl, Schubert, & Teppan, 2009;Mirzadeh, Ricci, & Bansal, 2004), addressed with recommendation method, for example through preference relaxation.…”