Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes

Cloud service selection and ranking are two different but related important tasks in the realm of cloud computing. Given the rapid growth in the number of available services offered by cloud providers with different quality of service, these tasks are becoming more and more challenging to be managed...

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Main Authors: Abdulaziz Alashaikh, Eisa Alanazi
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9543685/
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description Cloud service selection and ranking are two different but related important tasks in the realm of cloud computing. Given the rapid growth in the number of available services offered by cloud providers with different quality of service, these tasks are becoming more and more challenging to be managed by the end customers. Furthermore, many services in the cloud are defined over a large set of attributes where the potential customer is interested on only a small subset of them. The other attributes are viewed as irrelevant to the customer selection and ranking strategies. In this work, we show how to employ conditional preferential dependencies in the domain of cloud service selection and ranking. In particular, we use Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets) as a compact model to represent and reason with customer’s preferences and criteria interdependencies. We show how to select the best service and how to rank, in non-increasing order, a set of services given possibly incomplete information in the customer’s CP-net. Our experimental results prove the feasibility of CP-nets as a mechanism for selecting and ranking hundreds of services defined on hundreds of attributes with complex interdependencies.
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spelling doaj.art-c45172c920f24a339a5ab5ecae2584192022-12-22T03:47:07ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-01913121413122210.1109/ACCESS.2021.31146379543685Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant AttributesAbdulaziz Alashaikh0Eisa Alanazi1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-1116Department of Computer and Network Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Systems, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi ArabiaCloud service selection and ranking are two different but related important tasks in the realm of cloud computing. Given the rapid growth in the number of available services offered by cloud providers with different quality of service, these tasks are becoming more and more challenging to be managed by the end customers. Furthermore, many services in the cloud are defined over a large set of attributes where the potential customer is interested on only a small subset of them. The other attributes are viewed as irrelevant to the customer selection and ranking strategies. In this work, we show how to employ conditional preferential dependencies in the domain of cloud service selection and ranking. In particular, we use Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets) as a compact model to represent and reason with customer’s preferences and criteria interdependencies. We show how to select the best service and how to rank, in non-increasing order, a set of services given possibly incomplete information in the customer’s CP-net. Our experimental results prove the feasibility of CP-nets as a mechanism for selecting and ranking hundreds of services defined on hundreds of attributes with complex interdependencies.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9543685/Conditional preferencesCP-netscloud service selectionrankingdecision making
spellingShingle Abdulaziz Alashaikh
Eisa Alanazi
Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
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Conditional preferences
CP-nets
cloud service selection
ranking
decision making
title Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
title_full Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
title_fullStr Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
title_full_unstemmed Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
title_short Conditional Preference Networks for Cloud Service Selection and Ranking With Many Irrelevant Attributes
title_sort conditional preference networks for cloud service selection and ranking with many irrelevant attributes
topic Conditional preferences
CP-nets
cloud service selection
ranking
decision making
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9543685/
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