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Cloud Service Evaluation and Selection Using Fuzzy Hybrid MCDM Approach in Marketplace

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Thiruselvan Subramanian,

Nickolas SavarimuthuAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications, Volume 5, Issue 2

Pages 118 - 153

https://doi.org/10.4018/IJFSA.2016040108

Published: 01 April 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Cloud services are offered independently or combining two or more services to satisfy consumer requirements. Different types of cloud service providers such as direct sellers, resellers and aggregators provide services with different level of service features and quality. The selection of best suitable services involves multi-criteria nature of services to be compared with the presence of both qualitative and quantitative factors, which make it considerably more complex. To overcome this complexity, a fuzzy hybrid multi-criteria decision making approach has been proposed, which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors. Triangular fuzzy numbers are used in all pairwise comparison matrices in the Fuzzy ANP and the criteria weights are utilized by Fuzzy TOPSIS and Fuzzy ELECTRE methods to rank the alternatives. This strategy is demonstrated with selection of cloud based collaboration tool for designers. Finally, sensitivity analysis is performed to prove the robustness of the proposed approach.

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Cloud Service Evaluation and Selection Using Fuzzy Hybrid MCDM Approach in Marketplace
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International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications Volume 5, Issue 2

April 2016

153 pages

ISSN:2156-177X

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Ghorui NMondal SChatterjee BGhosh APal ADe DGiri B(2023)Selection of cloud service providers using MCDM methodology under intuitionistic fuzzy uncertaintySoft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications10.1007/s00500-022-07772-827:5(2403-2423)Online publication date: 17-Jan-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00500-022-07772-8
Thaha TKalaiarasan C. Venkatesh K. A. (2022)Cloud Service Provider Selection Using Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis Based on SMI AttributesInternational Journal of Fuzzy System Applications10.4018/IJFSA.31223911:4(1-24)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
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Neeraj Goraya MSingh D(2021)A comparative analysis of prominently used MCDM methods in cloud environmentThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-020-03393-w77:4(3422-3449)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11227-020-03393-w

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