An Ontology based System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Discovery

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...