Evaluation of Cloud Services: A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making Method

• Main Authors: Santoso Wibowo, Hepu Deng, Wei Xu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016-12-01
• Series: Algorithms
• Subjects: performance evaluation; Cloud services; group decision making; multi-criteria decision making; fuzzy sets
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/9/4/84

This paper presents a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making method for evaluating the performance of Cloud services in an uncertain environment. Intuitionistic fuzzy numbers are used to better model the subjectivity and imprecision in the performance evaluation process. An effective algorithm is developed based on the technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution and the Choquet integral operator for adequately solving the performance evaluation problem. An example is presented for demonstrating the applicability of the proposed method for solving the multi-criteria group decision making problem in real situations.