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

Table 17

Comparison of proposed model versus argugrid.

Compared features	ARGUGRID^(1)	Suppliers selection intelligent expert system
Argumentation oriented	*	*
Structure dialog between agents	*	*
Interagent reasoning	*	*
Decision making between agents	*	*^(2)
Multiagent architecture	*	*^(3)
Client (questions) and server (answers) agents structure	*	*^(4)
Agents sharing knowledge to make automatic reasoning	*	*
Deductive decision engine based on previously defined criteria	*	*
Predefined syntactic and semantic elements	*	*
Support for auditors		*
Support for top company management		*
Communication via Facts Searching Discussion Protocols		*^(4)
Deductive oriented		*
Dynamic knowledge fuzzy learning		*^(6)
Expert system		*
Facts Scoring Protocol based on human expert knowledge base		*^(7)
Financial oriented		*
Logic oriented		*
Initial existing human expert knowledge		*^(8)
Inference oriented		*
Internal Agent Decision Making Engine		*^(9)
Mutual shared communication among agents		*^(10)
Quality approach		*
SOX oriented		*

∗Feature supported.
⁽¹⁾ARGUGRID: www.argugrid.eu.
⁽²⁾Feature provided by Deductive Decision Making Protocol.
⁽³⁾Feature provided by the integration with a higher level Multiagent Intelligent System.
⁽⁴⁾Feature provided by Facts Searching Discussion Protocol.
⁽⁶⁾Feature provided by Dynamic Fuzzy Learning Protocol.
⁽⁷⁾Feature provided by Facts Scoring Protocol.
⁽⁸⁾Feature provided by Original Starting Know-How of the Agent.
⁽⁹⁾Feature provided by the Inter-Agent Cooperative Decision Making Protocol.
⁽¹⁰⁾Feature provided by the Mutual Shared Communication Protocol.