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

Table 2

Participant Suppliers 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 several suppliers have been invited to participate in the Suppliers Selection Process and the selected supplier was not selected without keeping in mind other suppliers; (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 a supplier has been selected without keeping in mind other suppliers; 10 if several suppliers were invited to the Suppliers Selection Process