A Task Orientated Requirements Ontology for Cloud Computing Services

Greenwell, Richard; Liu, Xiaodong; Chalmers, Kevin; Pahl, Claus

Abstract

Requirements ontology offers a mechanism to map requirements for cloud computing services to cloud computing resources. Multiple stakeholders can capture and map knowledge in a flexible and efficient manner. The major contribution of the paper is the definition and development of an ontology for cloud computing requirements. The approach views each user requirement as a semantic intelligence task that maps and delivers it as cloud services. Requirements are modelled as tasks designed to meet specific requirements, problem domains that the requirements exist in, and problem-solving methods which are generic mechanisms to solve problems. A meta-ontology for cloud computing is developed and populated with ontology fragments on to which cloud computing requirements can be mapped. A critical analysis of the usage of ontologies in the requirements process is made and a case study is described that demonstrates the approach in a real-world application. The conclusion is that problem-solving ontologies provide a useful mechanism for the specification and reuse of requirements in the cloud computing environment.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
• Start Date: Apr 18, 2016
• End Date: Apr 20, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Feb 29, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 31, 2017
• Pages: 121-128
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2016)
• ISBN: 9789897581823
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0005752301210128
• Keywords: Cloud, Service, Description, Semantic, Requirements, Engineering, Ontology
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/451255
• Contract Date: Jan 31, 2017