Monitoring Information Quality: With Applications for Traffic Management Systems

Fakir Hossain, Markus Helfert, Owen Foley

2011

Abstract

Information quality (IQ) plays a critical role in all management systems; however for traffic management systems IQ is often of limited consideration. The general approach to the study of IQ has offered numerous management approaches, IQ frameworks and list of IQ criteria. As the volume of data increases, IQ problems become pervasive. An example is decisions within traffic surveillance and management system, with its large amount of real time data and short decision times. Recognizing limitation in the applicability of current IQ frameworks with our work we aim to provide a practical-orient approach, and propose a process centric IQ monitoring framework that can be useful for traffic surveillance and management systems. Key to our work is the perspective of information systems as information manufacturing system (IMS). Objective of our information quality monitoring framework is to develop a comprehensive monitoring system that complements traffic management and surveillance systems.

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Foley O., Hossain F. and Helfert M. (2011). Monitoring Information Quality: With Applications for Traffic Management Systems . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Future Internet Applications for Traffic Surveillance and Management - Volume 1: FIATS-M, ISBN 978-989-8425-87-4, pages 114-123. DOI: 10.5220/0004473601140123


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@conference{fiats-m11,
author={Owen Foley and Fakir Hossain and Markus Helfert},
title={Monitoring Information Quality: With Applications for Traffic Management Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Future Internet Applications for Traffic Surveillance and Management - Volume 1: FIATS-M,},
year={2011},
pages={114-123},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004473601140123},
isbn={978-989-8425-87-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Future Internet Applications for Traffic Surveillance and Management - Volume 1: FIATS-M,
TI - Monitoring Information Quality: With Applications for Traffic Management Systems
SN - 978-989-8425-87-4
AU - Foley O.
AU - Hossain F.
AU - Helfert M.
PY - 2011
SP - 114
EP - 123
DO - 10.5220/0004473601140123