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

Table 5

Financial Analysis 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	Valuation of the fact of the business case that corresponds to this belief inside the range [−10 (penalization), 10]; −10 (penalization) if a financial analysis was not carried out over each invited supplier to the selection process; 10 in rest of cases