Trust Appraisal of Cloud Services using Cloud - Analytic Hierarchy Process

Abstract

In consuming cloud services, the need for transparency is substantial from the perspective of potential consumers. Consequently, assessment of their trust level becomes indispensable. So, a Cloud – Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based trust assessment system is applied for prioritizing and choosing the most-trustworthy cloud service provider.  The objective is to apply the principles and techniques of AHP in the prioritization and selection of trustworthy cloud services among the set of cloud service providers. Discrete experiments were carried out and the results were studied to show the firmness of our system in figuring out the relative efficiency and relative effectiveness of various cloud services through ranking mechanism.