Argumentative SOX Compliant and Quality Decision Support Intelligent Expert System over the Suppliers Selection Process
Table 11
Flexibility and Risks Management Scoring Protocol.
Belief type
Irrelevant for SOX compatibility Important for the quality of the process
SOX compatibility weight
0 (not needed belief for SOX compatibility)
Quality weight
0.5/8 (The 10 beliefs that compose the base knowledge do not have the same relevance in terms of quality over the Suppliers Selection Process. The SOX critical beliefs have a total relevance of 50% over the rest of beliefs. In this case there are 2 SOX critical beliefs and 8 non-SOX critical ones)
SOX compatibility valuation
(NA) does not apply
Quality valuation
It does not penalize, but it is a convenient belief. Valuation inside the range 0, 10āā (+10/9) for each one of the 9 different selection aspects of this belief is taken into consideration