measurement scales

The increasing importance of ensuring high-quality distributed information resources in the context of modern technologies necessitates the definition of effective quality assessment systems and measurement scales. This work explores the essential quality criteria for distributed information resources, including reliability, performance, scalability, security, interoperability, usability, management, and monitoring. Various assessment systems, such as ISO/IEC 25010, CMMI, COBIT, ITIL, and NIST, are analyzed for their applicability to different quality parameters.

The basic principles of systematization of measurement scales types are describes and analyses in this article. Properties types of the empirical objects and corresponding measurement scales are considered. According to VIM3 (“International vocabulary of metrology: Basic and general concepts and associated terms”), measurement scale (quantity-value scale) is an ordered set of quantity values of quantities of a given kind of quantity used in ranking, according to magnitude, quantities of that kind, for example, Celsius temperature scale, time scale, Rockwell C hardness scale etc.