Assuring quality in the information professions

Special Section: Assuring Information Quality

DONALD BALLOU is an Emeritus member of the faculty of the School of Business at the University at Albany. His graduate degrees are in applied mathematics, and his research has involved modeling in a variety of fields, including nonlinear fluid flow, production quality control, regional and transportation planning, information resource management, and especially data and information quality. At ...

Assuring the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a phenomenon of recent years, offering an alternative mechanism for the acquisition and compilation of geographic information. As such it offers substantial advantages, but suffers from a general lack of quality assurance. We discuss the issues involved in the determination of quality for geospatial data, and trace the history of research on VGI quali...

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Assuring Information Quality in Sharing Platform for Disaster Management

Disaster management is a multifaceted process aimed at minimizing the social and physical impact of these large-scale events. In this paper, we propose a quality-mind assuring approach in which web services are discovered, composed and executed considering both functional and QoS requirements. We prescribe a QoS management framework that defines fundamental principles, concepts and mechanisms w...

Assuring Quality in Online Course Delivery

This paper examines the critical issue of assuring quality online course delivery by examining four key components of online teaching and learning. The topic of course delivery is viewed as a cultural issue that permeates processes from the design of an online course to its evaluation. First, the authors examine and review key components of and tools for designing high impact online courses tha...