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A new multi-level trust management framework (MLTM) for solving the invalidity and sparse problems of user feedback ratings in cloud environments

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Choosing a trusted cloud service provider (CSP) is a major challenge for cloud users (CUs) in the cloud environment, as many CSPs offer cloud services (CSs) with the same functionality. Trust evaluation of CSPs is often based on information from quality of service (QoS) monitoring and CUs’ feedback ratings. Despite the volume of feedback ratings received in trust management systems, the quality of feedback storage is very low, as many CUs do not send their feedback ratings when using CSs. Additionally, a percentage of existing feedback ratings may not be valid, since some malicious CUs send unfair feedback ratings to change the trust evaluation results. As these lead to poor data quality, the accuracy of trust evaluation results might be affected. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a new multi-level trust management framework, which completes previous frameworks by defining new components to improve the data quality of feedback storage. In our framework, new components were defined to solve the invalidity and sparse problems of feedback storage. Certainly, the trust assessment of CSP would be more accurate based on high-quality feedback ratings. The performance of the MLTM was evaluated using two different datasets based on a real Quality of Web Services dataset (QWS) and an artificial data set (Cloud-Armor), whose quality was reduced for the purpose of this study. Analytical values revealed that our proposed approach significantly outperformed other approaches even with the poor data quality of feedback storage.

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  1. Quality Web Service (QWS)—http://www.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud/qws/ and Cloud_Armor (Feedback Web Service Cloud Armor—http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~cloudarmor/ds.html).

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Golnaz Aghaee Ghazvini, Mehran Mohsenzadeh & Amir Masoud Rahmani

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Ramin Nasiri

  3. Computer Science, University of Human Development, Sulaimanyah, Iraq

    Amir Masoud Rahmani

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Aghaee Ghazvini, G., Mohsenzadeh, M., Nasiri, R. et al. A new multi-level trust management framework (MLTM) for solving the invalidity and sparse problems of user feedback ratings in cloud environments. J Supercomput 77, 2326–2354 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-020-03348-1

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