An Exploration of Data Quality Management Based on Allocation Efficiency Model

The quality of data is often defined as “fitness for use”, the ability of data collection to meet users’ requirements. The assessment of data quality dimensions should consider the degree to which data satisfy users’ needs. User expectations are clearly related to the selected information and at the same time the information can have different utilities depending on the type of users that accesses it. In this thesis, the information is considered as a product of a specific service and data quality as a component of the service quality. For each service, it is possible to identify a provider and a final user. In the data quality literature, authors have always only considered as important the final users’ perspective declaring that providers should adapt their service offerings in order to completely satisfy users’ requirements. This paper presents a utility-based model of the provider and customers’ interests developed on the basis of multi-class offerings. The model is exploited to analyze the optimal service offerings that allow the efficient allocation of quality improvements in activities for the provider.