Decision Support for Selection of Cloud Service Providers

Abstract The rapid development of cloud computing and the sharp increase in the number of cloud service providers (CSPs) have resulted in many challenges in the suitability and selection of the best CSPs according to quality of service requirements. The main objective of this study is to propose three novel models based on the enhanced Russell model to increase the discrimination power in the evaluation and selection of CSPs. The proposed models are designed based on the distances to two special decision-making units (DMUs), namely the ideal DMU and the anti-ideal DMU. There are two advantages to the proposed ranking methods. First, they consider both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios of data envelopment analysis, so they are more equitable than methods that are based on only one of these scenarios. The second strength of this approach is its discrimination power, enabling it to provide a complete ranking for all CSPs. The proposed method can help customers to choose the most appropriate CSP while at the same time, it helps software developers to identify inefficient CSPs in order to improve their performance in the marketplace.

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Selection of Cloud Service Providers for Hosting Web Applications in a Multi-cloud Environment

2020 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) ◽

10.1109/scc49832.2020.00034 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Arun Ramamurthy ◽

Saket Saurabh ◽

Mangesh Gharote ◽

Sachin Lodha

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Environment ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Multi Cloud ◽

Selection Of

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Game-Theoretic Method for Selection of Trustworthy Cloud Service Providers

Proceedings of First International Conference on Smart System, Innovations and Computing - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ◽

10.1007/978-981-10-5828-8_52 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 545-553

Author(s):

Monoj Kumar Muchahari ◽

Smriti Kumar Sinha

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Theoretic Method ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Game Theoretic ◽

Selection Of

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SelCSP: A Framework to Facilitate Selection of Cloud Service Providers

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing ◽

10.1109/tcc.2014.2328578 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 66-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Nirnay Ghosh ◽

Soumya K. Ghosh ◽

Sajal K. Das

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Selection Of

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Reputation-Based Trust for Selection of Trustworthy Cloud Service Providers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ◽

10.1007/978-981-10-6890-4_6 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 65-74

Author(s):

Monoj Kumar Muchahari ◽

Smriti Kumar Sinha

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Selection Of

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Cloud Selection for E-Business A Parameter Based Solution

Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions - Advances in E-Business Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4181-5.ch009 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 199-207

Author(s):

Hemant Kumar Mehta

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Commercial Application ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Service Models ◽

Business Functions ◽

New Applications ◽

Cloud Implementation ◽

Selection Of

Cloud computing is a rapidly evolving area of distributed computing that has significantly changed the way e-business functions are performed. Cloud computing is proven to be an application enabler technology, as several new applications are being developed. These applications vary in size and scale of enterprise for which they are developed. Cloud computing provides solutions for enterprises of all sizes. Almost every commercial application is either migrated to or a candidate of migration on the cloud. Generally, the users of such applications face a big problem before their migration as a number of choices exist for cloud service models, cloud deployment models, and cloud service providers. This chapter presents a roadmap towards successful cloud implementation for enterprises of various scales. A parameter based approach is presented for (1) selection of the service model out of three major service models on cloud, (2) selection of a deployment model from among the four deployment models and (3) selection of a cloud service provider.

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Addressing Semantics Standards for Cloud Portability and Interoperability in Multi Cloud Environment

Symmetry ◽

10.3390/sym13020317 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 317

Author(s):

Chithambaramani Ramalingam ◽

Prakash Mohan

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Research Work ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Cloud Environment ◽

Cloud Service Providers ◽

Application Programming ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Programming Interfaces ◽

Multi Cloud

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of cloud consumers. Numerous new cloud service providers have been introduced to the market with unique features that assist service developers collaborate and migrate services among multiple cloud service providers to address the varying requirements of cloud consumers. Many interfaces and proprietary application programming interfaces (API) are available for migration and collaboration services among cloud providers, but lack standardization efforts. The target of the research work was to summarize the issues involved in semantic cloud portability and interoperability in the multi-cloud environment and define the standardization effort imminently needed for migrating and collaborating services in the multi-cloud environment.

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