A Meta-Modelling Service Paradigm for Cloud Computing and Its Implementation

Abstract

Service integrators seek opportunities to align the way they manage resources in the service supply chain. Many business organisations can operate new, more flexible business processes that harness the value of a service approach from the customer's perspective. As a relatively new concept, cloud computing and related technologies have rapidly gained momentum in the IT world. This article seeks to shed light on service supply chain issues associated with cloud computing by examining several interrelated questions: service supply chain architecture from a service perspective; the basic clouds of service supply chain; managerial insights into these clouds; and the commercial value of implementing cloud computing. In particular, to show how those services can be used, and involved in their utilisation processes, a hypothetical meta-modelling service of cloud computing is proposed. Moreover, the paper defines the managed cloud architecture for a service vendor or service integrator in the cloud computing infrastructure in the service supply chain: IT services, business services, business processes, which create atomic and composite software services that are used to perform business processes with business service choreographies.

A Generic, Cloud-Based Representation for Supply Chains (SC’s)

“…It is already well proven that SOA paradigm and extant EAI platforms of major vendors offer significant solutions in this regard (Rehan & Akyuz, 2010) and SOA paradigm received a certain degree of assimilation. However, cloud computing appears as a more recent technology and its assimilation in SC domain is not mature yet, with cloud-based modelling efforts are only recent (Cheng et al, 2011;Ryu, Nakayama, & Onari, 2011).…”