Honey bee based trust management system for cloud computing

• Main Authors: Firdhous, Mohamed, Ghazali, Osman, Hassan, Suhaidi, Harun, Nor Ziadah, Abas, Azizi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/13673/1/327.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/13673/; http://www.icoci.cms.net.my

Cloud computing has been considered as the new computing paradigm that would offer computer resources over the Internet as service.With the widespread use of cloud, computing would become another utility similar to electricity, water, gas and telephony where the customer would be paying only for the services consumed contrary to the current practice of paying a monthly or annual fixed charge irrespective of use.For cloud computing to become accepted by everybody, several issues need to be resolved.One of the most important issues to be addressed is cloud security.Trust management is one of the important components of cloud security that requires special attention. In this paper, the authors propose the concept that honey bee algorithm which has been developed to solve complex optimization problems can be successfully used to address this issue.The authors have taken a closer look at the optimization problems that had been solved using the honey bee algorithm and the similarity between these problems and the cloud computing environment.Thus concluding that the honey bee algorithm could be successfully used to solve the trust management issue in cloud computing.