Abstract
Software trustworthiness measurement becomes a focus in software companies. In software trustworthiness measurement, traditional Analytic Hierarchy Process (shortly, AHP) is usually utilized to estimate software attributes’ weights. However, the traditional AHP method only supports using definite numerical values and cannot quantify well decision makers’ opinions on software attributes. By using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set, a new method is proposed in this study based on the traditional AHP for software trustworthiness measurement. In the proposed method, an equation for calculating correlation coefficients between interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy matrices is designed in order to characterize similarities among decision makers’ opinions, and a parameter of threshold is introduced to select correlation coefficients for decision makers’ weights calculation. Besides, an equation for calculating attribute weights is designed based on harmonic mean in order to stand out levels of attribute importance. The proposed method is experimented in a task of evaluating the resilience of an operating system, and it is compared to the other two classical methods. Our experimental results show that the proposed method produces attribute weights with great differences, and its ability is stronger in the aspect of describing decision makers’ opinions.
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This work is supported by the East China Normal University - Huawei Trustworthiness Innovation Center and the Shanghai Trusted Industry Internet Software Collaborative Innovation Center.
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Yue, Z., Yao, X., Chen, Y. (2022). A New Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Method for Software Trustworthiness Measurement. In: Chen, Y., Zhang, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Logic and Applications. AILA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1657. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7510-3_18
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