Sun, Le and Ma, Jiangan and Wang, Hua and Zhang, Yanchun and Yong, Jianming (2018) Cloud service description model: an extension of USDL for cloud services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 11 (2). pp. 354-368. ISSN 1939-1374
Abstract
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, operational, and technical perspectives. Nevertheless, there are various issues with USDL: it lacks a comprehensive specification model, particularly for cloud services, lacks a user-centric specification modeling paradigm, lacks a mechanism to measure cloud service attributes and to present the association relationship and re-usability of the attributes, and lacks semantic representation of cloud services. Based on the above issues, we propose a unified semantic Cloud Service Description Model (CSDM) in this paper. The proposed model will be extended from the basic structure of USDL, by defining cloud-service-specific attributes. Furthermore, an additional module, named transaction module, will be defined, which models the rating system of cloud services from several aspects, such as risk, trust, and reputation. The transaction module facilitates the capability of CSDM with regard to service ranking, and enhances its flexibility and extensibility by providing an extensible sub-module. In addition, we design an OWL-based annotation system to enrich the semantic expressivity of this model. Finally, a case study is provided to explain the application of this model in actual cloud services.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Published version cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Management and Enterprise |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2019 01:38 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2019 00:34 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cloud service; service description model; USDL; CSDM |
| Fields of Research : | 08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0806 Information Systems > 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences |
| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1109/TSC.2015.2474386 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/35572 |
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