7, An information guality research drsft prosram

We could assume that an information being posessed and kept as a value of
strategic dimension should be purposeful, e, i, it represents a negessarjy zxnniti
cendition for some geal to be reached, Thus, apart from traditional viewing
the guality of an information, which admits it as a set of atributes, like
duantity of information (due to Shanon, 1953), precision and reliability of
information (Sackman, 1967;Morris, 1971; Hellerman and Smith, 1975), age of an
information (Davis, 1974) and a set of properties which a given (input) iufurux!
information displays within its being processed (like response time, compilasic
tion time, ect,), We dare to think about these ingredients of a guality of
information as necessar; part of a definition of guality of information, since
we proclaimed any infermation to be purposeful.After reviewing such a tradi
tional part of items which pretend to be a descrirtion of guality of an infor-
mtien we feel strongly temptated to name this set as "personal " guality image
ef an information which so far has togoften pretended to be da self-contained
category, not aiming to its "service",

After gathering some set of information for a given business system we behave
subcensciously to ask eurselves : what to do with them ? In the context of rese-
arch program herebjg preposed we shall pursue a max-principle ef data base
creation rather than a min-principle which looks for minimum input infermation
set needed in order to serve as a basis to a given set of eutput infermation.
Our sesearch is aimed to creation of secondary or sufficient part of definition
of guality of an information which appears as input to the given business
system,

To thispart we propose to explore a familj of functional models of business
systems at first, They contain output information; zk Cardinality, scope and
other rather standard atributes of the corresponding oučjut Spaces are very
important compenents of a guality of information since they codetermine a large
portion of implementational issues to the business system model, A rather intu-
itive tempktation is also  ,included: a number ef output informatien pieces
could bea part Sr unanure of guality of a given input information,

Furthermere, as:g nature of output. components of information is likel to
influence an information technology in broader sense of meaning, we also
pripese to study key properties of transformations (algorythms) of input into
output information.Thus, for example, a given input information could be more
desirable (or it has higher score within its multidimansional guality image)
if it reguires less sofisticated software in order to prsduce the same output
information,