A trust evaluation model for selecting service provider in cloud environment

Author

Agheli, Nafiseh ; Hosseini, Behrooz ; Shojaee, Aida

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Mazandaran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Babol, Iran

fYear

2014

fDate

29-30 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

251

Lastpage

255

Abstract

Today, concurrence with information technology (IT) progress, a novel issue has been introduced which is named as" cloud computing". The greatest obstacle that often is considered for acceptance of cloud services is lack of customers\´ trust to service providers. In this research, the problem of creating trust in cloud services has been evaluated and a model is presented to perform a comprehensive prioritization about services which are provided by cloud providers and let users to compare and choose proper service providers (in proportion with their needs) and in the other hand, enable service providers to increase their services\´ quality through an intact competition. Based on the subjective logic trust model, this paper combines direct experiences, reputation values, satisfied interaction feedback and risk factor. The simulations performed on this model confirm its correctness and its rationality of our trust model.

Keywords

cloud computing; risk analysis; trusted computing; IT; cloud computing; cloud environment; comprehensive prioritization; direct experiences; information technology progress; intact competition; reputation values; risk factor; satisfied interaction feedback; service provider selection; subjective logic trust model; trust evaluation model; Cloud computing; Clouds; Computational modeling; Decision making; Mathematical model; Reliability; Security; Cloud computing; Reputation; Trust; Trust management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE), 2014 4th International eConference on

Conference_Location

Mashhad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5486-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCKE.2014.6993418

Filename

6993418