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Cloud Service Description Model: An Extension of USDL for Cloud Services

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2018
There are a variety of well-designed specification-modelling-languages serving Internet services, however, none of them is capable of describing the special features of cloud services, from both technical and business points of view. The Unified Service Description Language (USDL) provides a new way to describe Internet services from business ...
Le Sun 0003, Jiangan Ma, Hua Wang 0002, Yanchun Zhang, Jianming Yong   +4 more
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Cloud Service Brokerage and Service Arbitrage for Container-Based Cloud Services

2018
By exploiting the portability of application containers, platform- and software-as-a-service providers receive the flexibility to deploy and move their cloud services across infrastructure services delivered by different providers. The aim of this research is to apply the concepts of cloud service brokerage to container-based cloud services and to ...
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Towards the Certification of Cloud Services

2013 IEEE Ninth World Congress on Services, 2013
The need of a certification process for cloud-based services is emerging as a way to address some of the remaining obstacles facing the effective development and diffusion of the cloud-computing paradigm. In this paper we move the first steps towards a complete approach containing a conceptual framework where the specifications of basic, hybrid and ...
S. Cimato, E. Damiani, F. Zavatarelli, R. Menicocci   +3 more
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Service Datastores in Cloud Governance

2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 2012
A direct consequence of adopting Cloud Computing is the creation of new marketplaces for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Having a strong support offered by Platform as a Service (PaaS) paradigm in terms of automation and management, combined with cloud governance, SMEs have a real chance to get back in competition with the large enterprises.
Adrian Copie, Teodor-Florin Fortis, Victor Ion Munteanu, Viorel Negru   +3 more
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SOS Cloud: Self-organizing Services in the Cloud

2012
Cloud computing is becoming an interesting alternative as a flexible and affordable on-demand environment for deploying custom applications in the form of services. This work proposes a bio-inspired, self-organizing solution to support the allocation and deallocation of virtual machines and the deployment of services on virtual machines in a cloud ...
B. A. Caprarescu, CALCAVECCHIA, NICOLO' MARIA, DI NITTO, ELISABETTA, DUBOIS, DANIELE JOSEPH   +3 more
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Cloud Services Composition Through Cloud Patterns

2015
The composition of cloud services to satisfy customer requirements is still a complex and tricky task, requiring care and skill owing to the huge number of Cloud services which are currently available on the market. Recently the concept of Cloud Pattern emerged as a way to describe the composition and orchestration of Cloud Services in order to satisfy
DI MARTINO, Beniamino, CRETELLA, Giuseppina, ESPOSITO, ANTONIO   +2 more
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Cloud Computing: A Platform of Services for Services

2011
This article describes the state of the art of cloud computing, focusing on its features and on the variety of services and applications that can be placed inside a cloud system, such as databases, processing, cloud gaming, storage and backup, etc.. This article also assesses and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud computing by ...
Nuno Sénica, Cláudio Teixeira, Joaquim Sousa Pinto   +2 more
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BonFIRE: The Clouds and Services Testbed

2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2013
BonFIRE is a multi-site test bed that supports testing of Cloud-based and distributed applications. BonFIRE breaks the mould of commercial Cloud offerings by providing unique functionality in terms of observability, control, advanced Cloud features and ease of use for experimentation.
Konstantinos Kavoussanakis, Alastair C. Hume, Josep Martrat, Carmelo Ragusa, Michael Gienger, Konrad Campowsky, Gregory van Seghbroeck, Constantino Vázquez, Celia Velayos, Frederic Gittler, Philip Inglesant, Giuseppe Carella, Vegard Engen, Michal Giertych, Giada Landi, David Margery   +15 more
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QoS-as-a-Service in the local cloud

2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2016
This paper presents an architecture that supports Quality of Service (QoS) in an Arrowhead-compliant System of Systems (SoS). The Arrowhead Framework supports local cloud functionalities for automation applications, provided by means of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), by offering a number of services that ease application development.
Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Jerker Delsing   +2 more
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Cloud Services

The most widely used definition of “cloud computing” is the one published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), according to which, “cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.
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