Blueprinting Approach in Support of Cloud Computing

Nguyen, Dinh Khoa; Lelli, Francesco; Papazoglou, M.; Heuvel, Willem‐Jan van den

doi:10.3390/fi4010322

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“…The Cloud Business Protocol. As stated in [27], to ensure a meaningful composition of two or more Cloud services, there is a clear need for placing emphasis on how to develop enhanced composite service offerings at the application-level and assign or reassign different virtual and physical resources dynamically and elastically. In fact, combining different independent Cloud services necessitates a uniform description format that facilitates the design, customization, and composition.…”

Section: Cloud Computing Modelsmentioning

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An Agent-Based Approach For Hybrid Multi-Cloud Applications

Benmerzoug¹

2013

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Abstract. Cloud service offerings provide a competitive advantages to enterprises through flexible and scalable access to computing resources. With the recent advances in Cloud computing, the need is emerging for interoperability between Cloud services so that a complex and developed business applications on Clouds are interoperable. In fact, combining different independent Cloud services necessitates a uniform description format that facilitates the design, customization, and composition. In this context, Agent Interaction Protocols (IP) are a useful way for structuring communicative interaction among business partners, by organizing messages into relevant contexts and providing a common guide to the all parts. The challenge here is twofold. First, we must propose a formal model that is rich enough to capture interactions characteristics. Second, we must allow designers to combine existing protocols to achieve a new specific need.The work presented in this paper is considered as a first step toward Agent Interaction Protocols as a Service. In fact, we propose a basis for a theoretical approach for aggregating protocols to create a new desired business application. The proposed approach provides the underpinnings of aggregation abstractions for protocols. Also, it proposes a set of operators that allows the creation of new value-added protocols using existing ones as building blocks.Key words: Agent Interaction Protocols, Cloud Computing, Protocols Composition, Petri Net, Verification. Introduction.Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with a minimal management effort or service provider interaction [34]. According to the intended access methods and availability of Cloud computing environments, four major types of Cloud deployments are known: public Clouds, private Clouds, community Clouds, and hybrid Clouds [31].The increasing adoption rate of Cloud computing is currently driving developers, integrators and hosting enterprises to take Cloud computing into account. As a result, enterprises need to revise their current assets as Cloud computing is becoming a strategic asset.However, enterprises are driven by different reasons to maintain their own data center, such as legislation of storing data in-house, investments in the current infrastructure, or the extra latency and performance requirements. This drive is supported by the fact that enterprises have already invested heavily in their own private server equipment and software [21].Consequently, we believe that a hybrid approach makes more sense for enterprises. This approach allows one to use the internal infrastructure combined with public Cloud resources to build a hybrid Cloud. For example, on one hand, critical applications can run on the infrastructure/platform of the private data center, and, on the other hand, the public Cloud can be used as a solution to manage peak demands or for disaster recovery.While the different...

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Section: Cloud Computing Modelsmentioning

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An Agent-Based Approach For Hybrid Multi-Cloud Applications

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2013

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“…Blueprints are e ncoded in XML and typically represented in terrns of a Virtual Architecture Topology (VAT) for which a graphical notation is suggested. 1be idea is to publish such blueprints in a public repository [43] to establish a service marketplace.…”

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“…Starting from the above-mentioned projects and their related work, we selected teo different approaches: Blueprint [43], CAML [8], CJoudMIG [27], CloudML [23], CloudML-UFPE 1 [30], H<JP!, MOCCA [39], MULTICLAPP [3 1], RESERVOIR-ML [20], and TOSCA [10]. For each selected approach, we provide a brief description and then categorize it according to both modeling language characteristics and cloud computing characteristics.…”

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Cloud Modeling Languages by Example

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2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications

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Abstract-Rece ntly, several proposals towards a cloud model· ing language have erneq;;cd. As they ad dress the diversity of cloud envimnments, il is not surprising that these modeling languages support different S(. 'Cfllll·ios. Using a by-example approach based on the sce nario of softw:uc migration, we demonstrate their represe ntational Cllpabilitics :md review them according to d!aracteristics common lo all modeling languages as weiJ as specific to the cloud computing donmin. We repor t on our findings an d present research guidelines for future efforts towards a better alignment of the different cloud modeling languages. I. I NTRODUCTIONCloud computing bas recently emerged as a new possibility how software can be made available to clients as a service. Hereby, software is hosted on a cloud environment [5] and consumable over the network by different clients. For software vendors, th. is is appealing because of low upfroot costs compared to a traditional on-premise solution as well as operational costs that scale with the provisioning and releasing of cloud resources, which are in turn offered as a service by cloud providers. Cloud service offerings range from low-level infrastructure elements, such as raw computing nodes, over higher level platforms, such as a Java execution environment on top of a cloud infrastructure, to ready-to-use software deployed on a cloud platform. Furthermore, software vendors are no longer forced to plan far ahead for resource provisioning [3] because the large-scale datacenters of today's cloud providers ensure that requested resources are available through their cloud environments. The risk of under-and over-provisioning of such resources is reduced by cloud environments due to their capabilities for elastic scalability on demand. Therefore, resources are not only provisioned as their demand increases but also released once their demand decreases (e.g. , number of user requests exceeds or falls below a defined threshold).Since cloud environments offer novel optimization opportunities (e.g., advanced scalable data persistence solutions), taking full advantage of the cloud requires that the software is prepared for such an environment However, in order to leverage the possibilities of a cloud environment, the software often needs to comply with certain restrictions that might hinder its functioning (e.g., statefuJ components in a highly scalable cloud environment). Several previous and ongoing European projects, notably REMICS [41] For each selected approach, we provide a brief description and then categorize it according to both modeling language characteristics and cloud computing characteristics. We do not claim that this set of cloud modeling language is complete and leave a systematic li terature review for future work. Rather, we foc us on the ex tensional perspective of the modeling languages by demonstrating the approaches in the setting of a cloud migration scenario. We have selected this scenario since it covers the wide spectrum of the software lifecycle. Finally, we c...

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“…The patterns in [2] could be used to add security to the workflows of [9]. Papers [8] and [9] have some complementary objectives and it would be interesting to find ways to use both approaches together.…”

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“…To solve this problem, Nguyen et al [8] propose the concept of cloud blueprints which provide abstract descriptions of cloud services which allow combining services from different layers or different providers.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Recent Advances in Web Services

Fernández

2012

Future Internet

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Abstract:We have collected five papers describing different aspects of web services and cloud computing. Cloud computing is the next stage of application interoperability and it is a logical extension of web services, both approaches being a variety of Service-Oriented Architecture. The papers cover security, migration, certification, and application development. Together, these papers provide a useful panorama of some of the issues of these two technologies.

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Blueprinting Approach in Support of Cloud Computing

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

An Agent-Based Approach For Hybrid Multi-Cloud Applications

An Agent-Based Approach For Hybrid Multi-Cloud Applications

Cloud Modeling Languages by Example

Introduction to the Special Issue on Recent Advances in Web Services

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