Authors: Daji Ergu Yi Peng
Publish Date: 2013/09/06
Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 219-238
Abstract
Software packages evaluation and selection is one of the most important activities encountered by software as a service SaaS users in the high performance networked computing environment especially for the small or mediumsized enterprises In this paper we propose a framework for SaaS software packages evaluation and selection by combining the virtual team VT and the BOCR benefits opportunities costs and risks of the analytic network process ANP Different from the traditional application of the BOCR model of ANP the proposed VTBOCR model attempts to solve the complex ANP model and overloaded pairwise comparisons by decomposing the tasks to four parts and performed by benefits virtual team BVT opportunities virtual team OVT costs virtual team CVT and risks virtual team RVT separately The interactive networked media on distributed environments not only makes the proposed framework possible without the limitations of time space and human resources but also can take full advantage of the talent experts who are geographically dispersed The proposed framework also shows great potentials for aiding practitioners and researchers concerned with the cloud servicesThis research was partially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China 70901011 71173028 71373216 and 91224001 Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University NCET120086 and Academic Degree Programs Construction at Southwest University for Nationalities 2012XWDS1201
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