Argumentative SOX Compliant and Quality Decision Support Intelligent Expert System over the Suppliers Selection Process

Table 1

Facts Scoring Protocol.

Belief type	Critical or irrelevant for SOX compatibility; Important or not for the quality of the process
SOX compatibility weight	1 if it is needed and mandatory for SOX compatibility; 0 in rest of cases
Quality weight	X; (The agent's beliefs do not have the same relevance in the quality of the process. Critical SOX beliefs will have a total relevance of 50% over the rest of agent's beliefs although these would be less in number)
SOX compatibility valuation	Logical boolean valuation: true (t) or false (f); (t) if this belief exists in the facts base of the analyzed business case; (f) in rest of cases; (NA) in case this belief is irrelevant for SOX compatibility
Quality valuation	Valuation of the fact of the analyzed business case corresponding to this belief inside the range [−10 (penalization), 10]