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Solving cloud vendor selection problem using intuitionistic fuzzy decision framework

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This paper presents a new decision-making framework called cloud vendor selector (CVS) for effective selection of cloud vendors by mitigating the challenge of unreasonable criteria weight assignment and improper management of uncertainty. The CVS comprises of two stages where, in the first stage, decision-makers’ intuitionistic fuzzy-valued preferences are aggregated using newly proposed extended simple Atanassov’s intuitionistic weighted geometry operator. Further, in the second stage, criteria weights are estimated by using newly proposed intuitionistic fuzzy statistical variance method and finally, ranking of cloud vendor (CV) is done using newly proposed three-way VIKOR method under intuitionistic fuzzy environment which introduces neutral category along with cost and benefit for better understanding the nature of criteria. An illustrative example of CV selection is demonstrated to show the practicality and usefulness of the proposed framework. Finally, the strength and weakness of the proposal are realized from both theoretic and numeric context by comparison with other methods.

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This study was funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), India (Grant No. F./2015-17/RGNF-2015-17-TAM-83) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (Grant No. SR/FST/ETI-349/2013).

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  1. School of Computing, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, 613401, TN, India

    Raghunathan Krishankumar & K. Soundarapandian Ravichandran

  2. Department of Mathematics, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Sanjay K. Tyagi

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Krishankumar, R., Ravichandran, K.S. & Tyagi, S.K. Solving cloud vendor selection problem using intuitionistic fuzzy decision framework. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 589–602 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3648-1

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