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ICNETS: Towards Designing Inter-Cloud Workflow Management Systems by Petri Nets

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Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2015)

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Abstract

The design of a Cloud ecosystem is usually tackled in technical way and it is vendor-dependent. There is a lack of conceptual foundation to specify the processes (workflows) running in the Cloud and their life-cycle. Furthermore, enabling workflows in such an environment still encounter many obstacles regarding workflow definition, deployment and execution. In fact, each Cloud provider has its own specification and APIs, which affects negatively their accessibility for both Cloud developers and Cloud consumers. The objective of this paper is to address these issues differently by introducing the Inter-Cloud Nets (ICNETS), which are a set of Petri net-based modeling and implementation techniques to specify Cloud-based workflows and their management. Our work aims at reducing the complexity of designing and implementing components that target Inter-Cloud environments. Moreover, we provide practical examples clarifying the concepts discussed through the paper. The examples are related to the remote sensing domain and implemented over a private Cloud based on the OpenStack framework. Another feature of this work is to avoid interoperability issues when developing Inter-Cloud based applications. For this purpose, we provide a supplementary layer to retrieve services from different Cloud providers.

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Notes

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    http://www.mosaic-fp7.eu/ (Last accessed 15.02.2015).

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    Image classification refers to the task of extracting information classes from a multi-spectral raster image. The resulting raster from image classification can be used to create thematic maps.

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    Web or desktop, both are possible.

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    http://www.globus.org/toolkit/ (Last access 20.03.2015).

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    http://www.unicore.eu/.

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    http://pegasus.isi.edu/.

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    http://www.taverna.org.uk/.

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    https://kepler-project.org (Last access 20.04.2015).

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    http://gridflow.ca/ (Last access 15.09.2014).

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    http://www.trianacode.org/ (Last access 10.12.2014).

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    A workflow schema is a combination of three essential dimensions: control flow, data flow, and resource flow.

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    Synchronous channel inscriptions consist of two types of inscriptions, up-links and down-links. Up-links are used in object nets while down-links in system nets. They consist of at least two transitions where one of the transitions is seen as the initiator of the communication having a down-link inscription.

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    https://jclouds.apache.org/ (last access date: 05.02.2015).

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    Renew (www.renew.de) is an editor and simulation tool for different kind of Petri nets especially reference nets.

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    http://www.mongodb.org/ (Last access date 10.01.2015).

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    Cost payable for using the Cloud services.

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    Time taken for application execution.

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    Sofiane Bendoukha & Daniel Moldt

  2. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Science and Technology USTOMB, Oran, Algeria

    Hayat Bendoukha

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Bendoukha, S., Bendoukha, H., Moldt, D. (2015). ICNETS: Towards Designing Inter-Cloud Workflow Management Systems by Petri Nets. In: Barjis, J., Pergl, R., Babkin, E. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24626-0_14

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