A fuzzy approach to reliability estimation of mobile agent-based systems

In this paper we explore the reliability of mobile agent-based systems under the assumption of uncertainty regarding the system´s environment (network). The lack of information about the failure rates of processors and communications links make it hard to estimate the required reliability using the conventional approach. To solve this problem, a fuzzy approach is suggested and experiments are conducted through Monte Carlo simulation. The results show the robustness of the proposed approach.