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 [−10 (penalization), 10]; −10 (penalization) if there is no signed confidentiality agreement with invited suppliers to the selection process; 10 in rest of cases