CB-Cloudle and cloud crawlers

Cloud services emerge as one of the most important parts for a company. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, Microsoft, to name a few, all fight to gain a foothold as cloud services providers. CB-Cloudle, a search engine aiming to discover the available options of cloud services and to suggest the most appropriate alternatives, is presented here to meet with the end users´ needs. In this work, this software platform CB-Cloudle specialised in searching for cloud services, and an automated cloud services crawler is also implemented. A k-means clustering algorithm with centroids was utilised to improve the search effectiveness and efficiency. This k-means clustering algorithm was introduced to discover the groups of similar cloud service entries, using a new similarity matrix to calculate the distance between cloud service entries.