期刊名称：International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing
印刷版ISSN：2005-4262
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
期号：4
页码：257-268
DOI：10.14257/ijgdc.2015.8.4.25
出版社：SERSC
摘要：Predicting quality of services (QoS) is an important need when ranking cloud services for selection. QoS values of cloud services usually depend heavily on the user's and service's environments. Therefore, personalized QoS value prediction for cloud services is more desirable to users. Collaborative Filtering (CF) has recently been applied to personalized QoS prediction for services on the Web. However, seldom did they take the context information of service users and services into consideration. The following paper presents a CF-based method for predicting QoS values of cloud services. The method exploits not only the QoS information of users and services, but also one type of the most important context information of users and services, i.e., their geographic locations. Experiments conducted on a real dataset show that geographic location information is indeed helpful for improving the QoS prediction performance. The experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed method is significantly better than previous methods in prediction accuracy.
关键词：cloud services; service selection; QoS prediction; collaborative filtering
