Intelligent Network Management and Control

5Selection of Cloud Computing Services: Contribution of Intelligent Methods

Ahmed Khalid Yassine SETTOUTI

Abou Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria

5.1. Introduction

Nowadays, each electronic device generates data related to its use, environment or state. Once generated, data are and will always be important for their generator and/or user.

The Web boom was immediately followed by a sudden increase in the use of computer devices. As a direct consequence, there is a growing amount of data generated by these devices. This rapid expansion gave rise to new needs and requirements in terms of resources for the management of generated information. This is how cloud computing emerged.

Later, the number of cloud computing providers continued to grow. Consequently, choosing one of them became a complex task, especially when unconventional requirements are involved. Furthermore, each provider has its own fees, quality measures, advantages and drawbacks. Therefore, choosing a provider or service became even more difficult.

This chapter is a state of the art focusing on the selection, composition, evaluation or recommendation of cloud computing services. The objective, approach or method of the surveyed works must be related to artificial intelligence (AI). The literature features many attempts such as Ahmed et al. (2019), who prefers to focus on the selection of cloud computing services in the case of heterogeneous cloud federation, while Whaiduzzaman et al. (2014) aims at approaches ...