Application of deterministic, stochastic, and hybrid methods for cloud provider selection

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Overview and comparison between cloud providers rank and selection proposals

Work	Class	Method	Criteria	Filter	Ql	Multi-Cloud
[7, 32]	D	AHP	SMI	No	Yes	No
[31]	D	Own indexing method	⊆ SMI	Yes	Yes	No
[8]	D	Voting method using DEA	SMI	No	Yes	No
[38]	D	Own method	⊆ SMI	No	Yes	No
[36]	D	Voting method	SMI	No	Yes	No
[34]	D	Own Method	Open	No	Yes	No
[35]	D	Own Method	Open	No	Yes	No
[22]	D	Own Method	SMI	No	No	No
[37]	D	Own Method	SLA	No	No	No
[12]	D	AHP with particular scale	⊆ SMI	No	Yes	No
[11]	D	AHP with particular scale	Open	No	Yes	No
[39]	M	BSA, TLBO, Jaya	SMI	No	Yes	No
[13]	M	HHO	SMI	No	Yes	No
[40]	M	SA, GA, PSO	⊆ SMI	No	Yes	Yes
[14]	M	NSGA II	⊂ SMI	No	No	Yes
[42]	H	AHP + TOPSIS	⊆ SMI	No	No	No
[45]	H	Clustering + DEMATEL + ANP	⊆ SMI	No	Yes	No
[9]	H	AHP + TOPSIS	SMI	No	No	No
[10]	H	TOPSIS, Fuzzy TOPSIS, AHP, ANP	⊆ SMI	No	No	No
Proposed Architecture	C	Own method, Adapted DEA, Adapted metaheuristics (GA, DDE, BDE)	SMI	Yes	Yes	Yes