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A software trustworthiness evaluation methodology for cloud services with picture fuzzy information

Published: 01 February 2024 Publication History

Abstract

VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) is one of the most commonly used decision-making technique. This work provides a software trustworthiness evaluation method based on VIKOR technique in a group decision-making (GDM) environment. Entropy is an important measure that refers to the amount of disorder in a decision support system. To quantify the decision quality of decision maker (DM), a new method for determining DM weights is proposed according to the entropy value of decision matrix, which is provided by that DM. A new normalization-projection measure is developed in order to test the closeness between two evaluation matrices in software trustworthiness evaluation process. The group regret measure in VIKOR-based GDM method is based on two negative reference matrices in this model. A new ranking method with classification is also developed in this work. Aiming at the complex and changeable environment, these new measures and methods are expected to enrich VIKOR techniques and to play a constructive role in group decision support systems. The feasibility and practicability of developed method are verified by some experiments. This study finds that the different methods (models) may have different results in situations where the same decision data are provided by DMs; and this study also finds that the different parameters may have different results in situation where the decision model is same. The practical implications of developed GDM method can apply not only to software trustworthiness evaluation, but also to many other product quality evaluations.

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An entropy-based method for determining the decision maker weights is provided.
A new normalization projection measure is developed in picture fuzzy environment.
A group regret measure is introduced.
A new ranking method with classification is proposed.

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cover image Applied Soft Computing
Applied Soft Computing  Volume 152, Issue C
Feb 2024
1017 pages

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  1. Software trustworthiness evaluation
  2. Group decision-making
  3. Entropy-based weight method
  4. Extended VIKOR method
  5. Normalization projection
  6. Picture fuzzy number

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