Investigating Techniques for Automating the Selection of Cloud Infrastructure Services

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Published Nov 1, 2013
https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v4i3.54
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Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2013

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Miranda Zhang
Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Rajiv Ranjan
Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Peter Strazdins
Research School of Computer Science, ANU, Australia
Samee U. Khan
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept, North Dakota State University, USA
Armin Haller
Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Abstract

The Cloud infrastructure services landscape advances steadily leaving users in the agony of choice. As a result, Cloud service identication and discovery remains a hard problem due to dierent service descriptions, non- standardised naming conventions and heterogeneous types and features of Cloud services. In this paper, analysis the research challenges and present a Web Ontology Language (OWL) based ontology, the Cloud Computing Ontology (CoCoOn). It denes functional and non-functional concepts, attributes and relations of infrastructure services. We also present a system, CloudRecommender, that implements our domain ontology in a relational model. The system uses regular expressions and Structured Query Language (SQL) for matching user requests to service descriptions. We brie y describe the architecture of the CloudRecommender system, and demonstrate its eectiveness and scalability through a service conguration selection experiment based on a set of prominent Cloud providers' descriptions including Amazon, Azure, and GoGrid.

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Miranda Zhang, Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Peter Strazdins, Samee U. Khan, & Armin Haller. (2013). Investigating Techniques for Automating the Selection of Cloud Infrastructure Services. International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, 4(3), 215–229. https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v4i3.54
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