An Ontology based System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Discovery

TL;DR

This paper introduces CoCoOn, an OWL-based ontology designed to improve the discovery and identification of cloud infrastructure services by standardizing descriptions and attributes.

Contribution

It presents a novel ontology framework, CoCoOn, that formalizes cloud service concepts to facilitate better discovery and comparison.

Findings

Enhanced service discovery accuracy

Standardized cloud service descriptions

Improved matching of services to user requirements

Abstract

The Cloud infrastructure services landscape advances steadily leaving users in the agony of choice. As a result, Cloud service identification and discovery remains a hard problem due to different service descriptions, non standardised naming conventions and heterogeneous types and features of Cloud services. In this paper, we present an OWL based ontology, the Cloud Computing Ontology (CoCoOn) that defines functional and non functional concepts, attributes and relations of infrastructure services. We also present a system...