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A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection

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Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2014)

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As more cloud computing offerings become available globally, cloud consumers’ efforts of gathering relevant information to support their service selection are raised considerably. On the one hand, high-volume marketplaces, such as Salesforce AppExchange, feature nonformalized offering descriptions. This abstinence of a service formalization impedes cloud consumers’ capabilities to both rapidly assess the fulfillment of their selection criteria and to compare different services uniformly. On the other hand, contemporary research on formalized service marketplaces faces significant challenges in its practical application, especially its ease of use and pertinence. In this article we present a novel textual domain specific language for describing services, a pertinent business vocabulary of selection criteria, and a brokering component. These artifacts raise cloud consumers’ capabilities while being practically applicable, pertinent to businesses, and easy to use.

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Notes

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    https://github.com/TU-Berlin-SNET/sdl-ng.

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    Contained as /examples/vocabulary in the SDL-NG source.

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    https://github.com/TU-Berlin-SNET/tresor-broker.

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Slawik, M., Küpper, A. (2014). A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection. In: Altmann, J., Vanmechelen, K., Rana, O. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_12

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