Federating Information System Quality Frameworks Using A Common Ontology

Information system (IS) quality can be characterized as a multidimensional system. It encompassessoftware quality as well as data quality. It also comprises model quality, service quality, process quality, and moregenerally IS quality. Modeling several aspects of IS quality leads to specific ontologies. To the best of ourknowledge, there is no global ontology dedicated to all the dimensions of an IS. A single ontology federating all theaspects of quality is not available. The aim of this paper is to propose and discuss the main constituents of anontology of quality federating all the aspects of IS components quality (software, data, models, etc.). In order tooperationalize the proposed ontology, we describe an approach allowing us to use the ontology in order to achievespecific quality goals