A reputation based service provider selection system for delegation of job by farmers. (Special Issue: Artificial intelligence in agriculture.)

摘要

Selection of a service provider, to perform agriculture jobs, is a major challenge for any farmer. This problem of selection of a service provider to delegate the job is being addressed by a balanced reputation based service provider selection system for farmer. Being agent based system, agents compute the reputation of the service providers present in the e-community based on their past experiences and recommendations collected from their trustworthy acquaintances. Further it is observed that if selection is done only on the basis of the reputation of the service providers then this may introduce delay in the accomplishment of the job because of overloaded reputed service providers. This paper presents a scheme to distribute the work to reputed service providers in such a way that delay in the accomplishment of the job can be minimized. As reputation is a subjective term, so to quantify reputation the concept of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) is used in this paper. Further the Intuitionistic Fuzzy distances among the recommendations of various trustworthy peers are computed using which the trust on a trustworthy acquaintance is updated.