A Reliable Contract Net Trust Etablishment Protocol

Awarded to Ankit Jagga (2012) under the Supervision Dr. Dimple Juneja

This work is an extension of Contract Net Trust Establishment Protocol and the new improved version computes the reliability of agents participating in communication. The major contribution of the work is that it is able to compute reliability without adding an extra agent and hence no extra overhead has been incurred in current work. Four parameters namely, Trust_Percentile_Certificate, Reliability_Value, Condition, Results and Time were considered to evaluate the reliability of atomic agents and results are consistent with existing works. Ensuring reliability of

perspective contractor agents helped us to choose the most reliable contractor for the job, which led to better performance of the system in terms of satisfactory and timely output. Also less number of service delivery failures could occur. In addition, the proposed concept is an extension of, rather than a replacement for, the existing mechanisms. Read More at........http://hdl.handle.net/10603/10917