<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Knowing the trust level of cloud service providers is a significant issue in the field of cloud computing for privacy and security reasons. The idea of this paper is to build up a Consumer and Cloud-Data Envelopment Analysis (CCDEA) trust assessment model for evaluating cloud services in two stages. In first stage, the believability index of each cloud Consumer (C) is calculated. The second stage incorporates Cloud-Data Envelopment Analysis (C-DEA) model for the trust assessment of cloud services from the viewpoint of cloud consumers. Several experiments were conducted and the results were analyzed to show the stability of our method in measuring the relative efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services through ranking mechanism.</p></abstract>

Knowing the trust level of cloud service providers is a significant issue in the field of cloud computing for privacy and security reasons. The idea of this paper is to build up a Consumer and Cloud-Data Envelopment Analysis (CCDEA) trust assessment model for evaluating cloud services in two stages. In first stage, the believability index of each cloud Consumer (C) is calculated. The second stage incorporates Cloud-Data Envelopment Analysis (C-DEA) model for the trust assessment of cloud services from the viewpoint of cloud consumers. Several experiments were conducted and the results were analyzed to show the stability of our method in measuring the relative efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services through ranking mechanism.

CCDEA: Consumer and Cloud – DEA Based Trust Assessment Model for the Adoption of Cloud Services

Department of Information Technology, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RVS Educational Trust’s Group of Institutions, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Knowing the trust level of cloud service providers is a significant issue in the field of cloud computing for privacy and security reasons. The idea of this...

CCDEA: Consumer and Cloud – DEA Based Trust Assessment Model for the Adoption of Cloud Services

Published Online: Aug 19, 2016

Page range: 52 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2016-0034

Keywords
Cloud computing, believability index, cloud service, trust assessment, Data envelopment analysis, cloud theory

© by Sivakami Raja

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

CCDEA: Consumer and Cloud – DEA Based Trust Assessment Model for the Adoption of Cloud Services

Published Online: Aug 19, 2016

Page range: 52 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2016-0034

KeywordsCloud computing, believability index, cloud service, trust assessment, Data envelopment analysis, cloud theory

© by Sivakami Raja

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Cloud computing, believability index, cloud service, trust assessment, Data envelopment analysis, cloud theory