| AHP: |
Analytical hierarchical process |
| CC: |
Cloud computing |
| CSA: |
Cloud security alliance |
| CSMIC: |
Cloud service measurement index consortium |
| ENISA: |
European Network and Information Security Agency |
| FSM: |
Finite state machine |
| GA: |
Genetic algorithm |
| HIPAA: |
Health insurance portability and accountability act |
| IaaS: |
Infrastructure as a service |
| IVF: |
Intervalued Fuzzy |
| MCC: |
Mobile cloud computing |
| MCDM: |
Multicriteria decision making |
| NIST: |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| PaaS: |
Platform as a service |
| QoS: |
Quality of services |
| RVWS: |
Resources via web services framework |
| SAW: |
Simple additive weighting |
| SecaaS: |
Security as a service |
| SLA: |
Service level agreement |
| SMI: |
Service measurement index |
| SOA: |
Service oriented architecture |
| SaaS: |
Software as a service |
| TOPSIS: |
Technique for order preference by similarity (OPS) to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) |
| VM: |
Virtual machine |
| VON: |
Virtualized optical network. |