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Cloud services description ontology used for service selection

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Cloud computing has emerged as a tremendous opportunity for both industry and academia as it introduces a fundamental shift in Cloud service delivery. This situation has led to more competitive Cloud providers giving end-users greater freedom to choose the best Cloud service. However, each Cloud provider uses its techniques to describe its Cloud services. As a result, it is increasingly difficult for users to find and access Cloud services with similar functionality. The variety of these techniques is due to the lack of Cloud services description standardization. To deal with such issues and due to the vast search space, we propose in this paper a Cloud services description ontology, “CSDO,” that assists the Cloud service publication, discovery, and selection processes. The proposed description is based on the Linked-USDL language to describe Cloud services thanks to its expressiveness.

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  1. Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, MIRACL, University of Sfax, Sousse, Tunisia

    Hajer Nabli

  2. Higher Institute of Computer Science and Communication Techniques of H. Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

    Raoudha Ben Djemaa

  3. National School of Electronics and Telecommunications of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Ikram Amous Ben Amor

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Nabli, H., Ben Djemaa, R. & Amous Ben Amor, I. Cloud services description ontology used for service selection. SOCA 16, 17–30 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-021-00328-y

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