Smart Cloud Storage Service Selection Based on Fuzzy Logic, Theory of Evidence and Game Theory

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2348-2362

  Esposito, Christian ^a   Ficco, Massimo ^b   Palmieri, Francesco ^b   Castiglione, Aniello ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

decision making; Dempster Shafer theory; fuzzy set theory; game theory; genetic algorithms; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SALES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; FUZZY SETS THEORY; SERVICE SELECTION; THEORY OF EVIDENCE;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84978670345     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2015.2389952     Document Type: Article

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