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Several approaches have been proposed to describe services in a rich and generic manner (such as WSDL, OWL-S, WSMO, and SAWSDL). However, current approaches remain inappropriate for cloud computing since: 1) they lack in a way or another semantic or business aspect, 2) they cannot fully cope with non-functional properties and cloud characteristics, 3) they are unable to cover all kinds of services (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). Despite the existence of several attempts which have tried to extent existing studies, the problem remains open. In this paper, we propose Cloud-WSDL, a new description model aligned with WSDL language, the most popular language, to make it more suitable for describing cloud services. The idea is to enhance WSDL description with our ontological Generic Cloud Service Description called GCSD to cope with many aspects (technical, operational, business, semantic and contextual) to ensure a high interoperability between services belonging to multiple heterogeneous clouds, and to support all the kinds of cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS).
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Ghazouani, S., Tissaoui, A., Chbeir, R. (2021). Towards a Cloud-WSDL Metamodel: A New Extension of WSDL for Cloud Service Description. In: Bellatreche, L., Dumas, M., Karras, P., Matulevičius, R. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12843. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82472-3_20
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