Face validation of database forensic investigation metamodelShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Infrastructures, E-ISSN 2412-3811, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 1-19Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Using a face validity approach, this paper provides a validation of the Database Forensic Investigation Metamodel (DBFIM). The DBFIM was developed to solve interoperability, heterogeneity, complexity, and ambiguity in the database forensic investigation (DBFI) field, where several models were identified, collected, and reviewed to develop DBFIM. However, the developed DBFIM lacked the face validity-based approach that could ensure DBFIMâs applicability in the DBFI field. The completeness, usefulness, and logic of the developed DBFIM needed to be validated by experts. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to perform the validation of the developed DBFIM using the qualitative face validity approach. The face validity method is a common way of validating metamodels through subject expert inquiry on the domain application of the metamodel to assess whether the metamodel is reasonable and compatible based on the outcomes. For this purpose, six experts were nominated and selected to validate the developed DBFIM. From the expert review, the developed DBFIM was found to be complete, coherent, logical, scalable, interoperable, and useful for the DBFI field.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2021. Vol. 6, no 2, p. 1-19
Keywords [en]
database forensics, digital forensic, face validity, metamodel, validation
National Category
Information Systems
Research subject
Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-82947DOI: 10.3390/infrastructures6020013ISI: 000623662600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85100332066OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-82947DiVA, id: diva2:1528437
Note
Validerad;2021;Nivå 1;2021-02-15 (johcin)
2021-02-152021-02-152025-04-16Bibliographically approved