To provide a layout system suitable to implement layout with a high
individuality. Layout result data of automatic layout processing is
acquired as comparison destination layout result data. Business-type
information, identical to business-type information corresponding to an
input user ID, is retrieved from a user information registration database
to read out a user ID corresponding to the associated business-type
information. Comparison source layout result data, corresponding to the
read-out user ID, is read out from layout result data registration
database. Next, similarity between the comparison destination layout
result data and the comparison source layout result data is calculated,
and the comparison destination layout result data is corrected so that
the degree of correction of the comparison destination layout result data
increases as the calculated similarity increases.