Authors:
Lucas Borges de Moraes
1
;
Adriano Fiorese
1
and
Fernando Matos
2
Affiliations:
1
Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Brazil
;
2
Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)
Keyword(s):
Cloud Computing Providers, Performance Indicators, Scoring Method, Ranking, Selection.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Collaborative Computing
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Virtual Enterprises
Abstract:
Cloud computing is a service model that allows hosting and on demand distribution of computing resources all around the world, via Internet. Thus, cloud computing has become a successful paradigm that has been adopted and incorporated into virtually all major known IT companies (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft). Based on this success, a large number of new companies were competitively created as providers of cloud computing services. This fact hindered the clients’ ability to choose among those several cloud computing providers the most appropriate one to attend their requirements and computing needs. This work aims to specify a logical/mathematical multi-criteria scoring method able to select the most appropriate(s) cloud computing provider(s) to the user (customer), based on the analysis of performance indicator values desired by the customer and associated with every cloud computing provider that supports the demanded requirements. The method is a three stages algorithm that evalu
ates, scores, sorts and selects different cloud providers based on the utility of their performance indicators for each specific user of the method. An example of the method’s usage is given in order to illustrate its operation.
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