Semantic description of cloud service agreements

Greenwell, Richard; Liu, Xiaodong; Chalmers, Kevin

Abstract

To provide cloud services as a utility there must be
a mechanism for comprehensively and precisely specifying cloud
service agreements to reduce differences in service perception
between customers and suppliers.
This paper proposes a description logic driven approach to
specifying cloud service agreements as ontology, which allows
agreement and negotiation between the parties in the service
agreement. A unique contribution is provided by modelling of
cloud service agreements as ontology which is precise and
comprehensive.
Future work sees the approach expanded to include a greater
number of cloud service agreement artifacts and a service
agreement specification for a financial calculation service.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI)
• Start Date: Jul 28, 2015
• End Date: Jul 30, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Nov 27, 2014
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Deposit Date: May 14, 2015
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 823-831
• Book Title: Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015
• ISBN: 9781479985470
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/sai.2015.7237239
• Keywords: Utility, cloud computing, semantic description,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8129