Cloud Service Brokerage: A Conceptual Ontology-Based Service Description Framework

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Author(s): Frank Fowley (Dublin City University, Ireland), Claus Pahl (Dublin City University, Ireland)and Li Zhang (Northeastern University at Shenyang, China)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Raja Ramanathan (Independent Researcher, USA)and Kirtana Raja (IBM, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6178-3.ch024

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Systems & Software Design / Systems and Software Engineering

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Cloud service brokerage has been identified as a key concern for future Cloud technology research and development. Integration, customization, and aggregation are core functions of a Cloud service broker. The need to cater to horizontal and vertical integration in service description languages, horizontally between different providers and vertically across the different Cloud layers, has been well recognized. In this chapter, the authors propose a conceptual framework for a Cloud service broker in two parts: first, a reference architecture for Cloud service brokers; and second, a rich ontology-based template manipulation framework and operator calculus that describes the mediated and integrated Cloud services, facilitates manipulating their descriptions, and allows both horizontal and vertical dimensions to be covered. Structural aspects of that template are identified, formalized in an ontology, and aligned with the Cloud development and deployment process.

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