期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Research
印刷版ISSN：2249-7277
电子版ISSN：2277-7970
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：14
页码：123-133
出版社：Association of Computer Communication Education for National Triumph (ACCENT)
摘要：Mobile Agent based Systems (MAS) is one of the fastest growing and emerging areas for application development in recent past. A mobile agent is a computer program that acts autonomously on behalf of a user or application moving in the heterogeneous communication environment. To ensure fault and failure free operation of mobile agent based commercial applications, reliability issues need to be addressed. In this paper, we present a complete survey of various techniques for estimation of reliability of MAS on the basis of factors that affect it. The survey concludes that reliability estimation techniques of MAS developed so far are based on aggregation of certain combinations of attributes in a specific environment. But, due to complex and dynamic nature of MAS, there is a great potential of further research in the area of their reliability assessment.
