Argumentative SOX Compliant and Quality Decision Support Intelligent Expert System over the Suppliers Selection Process
Table 3
Agreement of Confidentiality Scoring Protocol.
Belief type
Critical for SOX compatibility Important for the quality of the process
SOX compatibility weight
1 (needed and mandatory belief for SOX compatibility)
Quality weight
0.5/2 (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
Logical boolean valuation with values true (t) or false (f) (t) if this belief occurs in the facts base of the analyzed business case. That is to say, if a confidentiality agreement has been signed with each of the invited suppliers to the selection process (f) in rest of cases
Quality valuation
Valuation of the fact of the business case that corresponds to this belief inside the range [ā10 (penalization), 10] ā10 (penalization) if there is no signed confidentiality agreement with invited suppliers to the selection process 10 in rest of cases