A Methodology for Ranking of MAS Reliability Measures

To rank various reliability measures of Mobile Agent based Systems, a complete framework has been proposed in this research paper which are dominant pointers of the MAS reliability. Identification of a set of reliability measures and their ranking criteria is the basis of our research. No related appropriate applied data is found in literature; hence each measure's score for each ranking criterion is stimulated through expert opinion aggregation using fuzzy multilevel procedure. The proposed approach has been compared with existing practices. By setting up and practice of ranking of frequently used reliability measures of each component of Mobile Agent based Systems, a reliable quantitative estimate of MAS reliability can be done. With the known ranks of reliability measures, an organization using them will be more relaxed and assured while measuring reliability of Mobile Agent based Systems.