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A hybrid formal verification approach for QoS-aware multi-cloud service composition

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Today, cloud providers represent their individual services with several functional and non-functional properties in various environments. Discovering and selecting an appropriate atomic service from a pool of activated services are a main challenge in the multi-cloud service composition. Minimizing the number of cloud providers is a critical matter in the service composition problem, which effects on energy consumption, response time and total cost. This paper presents a hybrid formal verification approach to assess the service composition in multi-cloud environments though the decreasing number of cloud providers to gain final service composition with a high level of Quality of Service (QoS). The presented approach provides behavioral modeling to examine the procedure of user’ requests, service selection, and composition in a multi-cloud environment. Also, the proposed approach permits analysis of the service composition using a Multi-Labeled Transition Systems (MLTS)-based model checking and Pi-Calculus-based process algebra methods for monitoring the functional specifications and non-functional properties as the QoS standards. In addition, the proposed approach satisfies the functional properties for the multi-cloud service composition. The experimental results proved the feasibility of the proposed approach with performance evaluations and some confirmation setups.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Alireza Souri & Amir Masoud Rahmani

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

    Nima Jafari Navimipour

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, College of Technical and Engineering, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Reza Rezaei

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Souri, A., Rahmani, A.M., Navimipour, N.J. et al. A hybrid formal verification approach for QoS-aware multi-cloud service composition. Cluster Comput 23, 2453–2470 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-019-03018-9

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