Authors:
Molka Rekik
1
;
Khouloud Boukadi
1
and
Hanêne Ben-abdallah
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Sfax, Tunisia
;
2
University of Sfax and King Abdulaziz Universit, Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Ontology, Cloud, Services, Functional Properties, Non-functional Properties, Discovery, Selection.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Applications
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Abstract: Cloud computing is a model delivery of infrastructure, platform and software services over the net. The lack
of standardization of heterogeneous Cloud service descriptions makes service discovery and selection very
complex tasks for Cloud users. To ease this complexity, it is crucial to describe the various Cloud service
pertinent information in a homogeneous model. To provide for such model, this paper offers to contributions.
First, it proposes a Cloud description ontology that integrates service descriptions obtained from heterogeneous
sources. The ontology model accounts for the functional and non-functional properties, attributes and
relations of infrastructure, platform and software services in order to facilitate the discovery and selection of
suitable Cloud services. Second, this paper presents a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the proposed
ontology. For the qualitative evaluation, we use a reasoner to identify defects in the ontology, whilst for
the
quantitative evaluation we compare our search results with those obtained through a web search engine.
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