Appendix: Evaluating Cloud Services Using Methods of
Supplier Selection
Stefan Harnisch1 and Peter Buxmann1,
1 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Chair of Information Systems, Hochschulstraße 1, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
{harnisch,buxmann}@is.tu-darmstadt.de
Table 1: Analyzed journals, ranking according to VHB Jourqual [17].
Journal
Rank-ing Accessed via
Hits (Rele-vant) Ebsco-Host WoK Operations Research A+ x 0 (0)
Production and Operations Management A x 5 (0)
OR Spectrum A x 1 (0)
European Journal of Operational Research A x 29 (10) Operations Management Research B Springerlink 1 (0) Mathematics of Operations Research B x 0 (0) Journal of Operations Management B x 6 (0)
Annals of Operations Research B x 2 (1)
International Journal of Production Economics B x 55 (26) International Journal of Production Research B x 66
(27) Journal of Supply Chain Management B x 13 (4) Computers and Operations Research B x 12 (3) International Journal of Physical Distribution and
Logistics Management B x 15 (2)
Journal of the Operational Research Society B x 8 (4)
Omega B x 10 (4)
Decision Support Systems B x 2 (0)
Long Range Planning B x 0 (0)
Sum 225
Table 2: Occurrence of identified methods
Method Count Percentage
Fuzzy set theory 24 20,9%
AHP 22 19,1%
DEA 12 10,4%
Other 9 7,8%
Linear programming 9 7,8%
Other mathematical programming methods 8 7,0%
Genetic algorithms 6 5,2%
Literature-based comparisons 5 4,3%
ANP 4 3,5%
Goal programming 4 3,5%
Activity based costing 3 2,6%
Grey relational analysis 3 2,6% Multivariate statistical analysis 2 1,7% Other statistical methods 2 1,7%
Table 3: Occurrence of identified methods
Source
Methods AHP ANP Grey Fuzzy Lin.
Progr.
Math.
Progr. ABC DEA Goal progr.
Gen-etic Review
Multi-variate Statistical Other #
Aissaoui et al. (2007) x 1
Akarte et al. (2001) x 1
Amid et al. (2006) x x 2
Amid et al. (2009) x 1
Amid et al. (2011) x 1
Araz & Ozkarahan (2007) x 1
Awasthi et al. (2009) x 1
Bottani & Rizzi (2008) x x 2
Büyüközkan (2012) x x 2
Cakravastia et al. (2002) x 1
Cao & Wang (2007) x 1
Chan (2003) x 1
Chan et al. (2008) x x 2
Chan et al. (2011) x 1
Che & Chiang (2012) x x 2
Che (2010) x 1
Che (2010) x x 2
Chen & Chen (2006) x 1
Chen & Wang (2009) x 1
Chen (2009) x 1
Chen et al. (2006) x 1
Chou et al. (2007) x 1
Current & Weber (1994) x 1
Degraeve & Roodhooft (1999) x 1
Degraeve et al. (2000) x 1
Source AHP ANP Grey Fuzzy Lin. Progr.
Math.
Progr. ABC DEA Goal progr.
Gen-etic Review
Multi-variate Statistical Other #
Dotoli & Falagario (2012) x 1
Faez et al. (2009) x x 2
Falagario et al. (2012) x 1
Farzipoor Saen (2009) x 1
Feng et al. (2011) x 1
Fuh-Hwa Franklin Liu & Hui Lin Hai
(2005) x 1
Ge Wang et al. (2004) x x 2
Ghodsypour & O'Brien (1998) x x 2
Golmohammadi & Mellat-Parast (2012) x x 2
He et al. (2009) x x 2
Ho et al. (2010) x 1
Huang & Keskar (2007) x 1
Humphreys et al. (2006) x 1
Ishizaka et al. (2012) x 1
Jayaraman et al. (1999) x 1
Kaufmann et al. (2010) x 1
Kumar et al. (2006) x x 2
Kuo & Lin (2012) x x 2
Labib (2011) x x 2
Lam & Tang (2006) x 1
Lasch & Janker (2005) x 1
Lee (2009) x x 2
Li & Zabinsky (2011) x 1
Liao & Rittscher (2007) x x 2
Lin (2012) x x x 3
Mafakheri et al. (2011) x 1
Narasimhan et al. (2001) x 1
Ng (2008) x 1
Noorul Haq & Kannan (2006) x 1
Osman & Demirli (2010) x 1
Source AHP ANP Grey Fuzzy Lin. Progr.
Math.
Progr. ABC DEA Goal progr.
Gen-etic Review
Multi-variate Statistical Other #
Pitchipoo et al. (2012) x x 2
Rezaei & Davoodi (2012) x 1
Roodhooft & Fonings (1997) x 1
Sadeghieh et al. (2012) x x x 3 Saen (2007) x 1 Sen et al. (2010) x x 2 Sevkli et al. (2007) x x 2 Sucky (2007) x 1 Talluri et al. (2006) x 1
Tam & Tummala (2001) x 1
Tsai & Hung (2009) x x x 3
Tsai (2009) x 1
Ustun & Demirtas (2008) x x 2
Vahdani & Zandieh (2010) x 1
Wang et al. (2009) x x 2 Weber et al. (1991) x 1 Wu & Blackhurst (2009) x 1 Wu & Olson (2008) x 1 Wu et al. (2008) x 1 Wu et al. (2010) x x 2 Xia & Wu (2007) x x 2 Xu & Ding (2011) x x 2 Yu et al. (2012) x x 2 Zhang et al. (2012) x x x 3 Sum 22 4 3 24 9 9 3 12 4 6 5 2 2 10
AHP: Analytical Hierarchy Process ANP: Analytical Network Process Grey: Grey theory
Fuzzy: Fuzzy theory
Lin. Progr.: Linear Programming
Math. Progr.: Mathematical Programming ABC: Activity Based Costing
DEA: Data Envelopment Analysis Goal progr.: Goal Programming Genetic: Genetic Algorithms
Review: Literature-based comparison Multivariate: Multivariate statistics Statistical: (Other) statistical methods Other: Everything else
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