Ontology-based composition and matching for dynamic cloud service coordination
Pahl, ClausORCID: 0000-0002-9049-212X, Gacitua-Decar, Veronica, Wang, MingXue and Yapa Bandara, Kosala
(2012)
Ontology-based composition and matching for dynamic cloud service coordination.
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 6
(3/4).
pp. 195-206.
ISSN 1744-2621
Recent cross-organisational software service offerings, such as cloud computing, create higher integration needs.
In particular, services are combined through brokers and mediators, solutions to allow individual services to collaborate and their interaction to be coordinated are required. The need to address dynamic management - caused by cloud and on-demand environments - can be addressed through service coordination based on ontology-based composition and matching techniques. Our solution to composition and matching utilises a service coordination space that acts as a passive infrastructure for collaboration where users submit requests that are then selected and taken on by providers. We discuss the information models and the coordination principles of such a collaboration environment in terms of an ontology and its underlying description logics. We provide ontology-based solutions for structural composition of descriptions and matching between requested and provided services.
Metadata
Item Type:
Article (Published)
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Service coordination; Tuple space; Dynamic service composition; Service Ontology; Cloud Service Coordination; Cloud Mediation