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Table 10: Final score calculation.
General formula:
P
f inal
(i) = 0, 5255 ∗ Pts
essential
(i) + 0,2825 ∗ Pts
high
(i) + 0,1413 ∗ Pts
medium
(i) +
0,0508 ∗ Pts
low
(i)
Provider Final score
Prov
1
0,5255 ∗ (0,71) + 0,2825 ∗ (1,00) + 0,1413 ∗ (0, 50) + 0, 0508 ∗ (0) = 0, 7263
Prov
3
0,5255 ∗ (0,85) + 0,2825 ∗ (0,35) + 0,1413 ∗ (0, 7375) + 0, 0508 ∗ (0, 70) = 0, 6853
Prov
4
0,5255 ∗ (0,77) + 0,2825 ∗ (0,485) + 0,1413 ∗ (0, 50) + 0, 0508 ∗ (0) = 0, 6123
Prov
5
0,5255 ∗ (0,85) + 0,2825 ∗ (0,35) + 0,1413 ∗ (0, 925) + 0, 0508 ∗ (0) = 0, 6763
Future work includes testing the proposed method
in realistic settings, as well as the creation of a cloud
computing broker that incorporates the developed
method.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The authors would like to thank UDESC PROBIC
scientific financial programme.
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