Cloud Service Localisation

Abstract

Abstract. The essence of cloud computing is the provision of software and hardware services to a range of users in different locations. The aim of cloud service localisation is to facilitate the internationalisation and localisation of cloud services by allowing their adaption to different locales. We address the lingual localisation by providing service-level language translation techniques to adopt services to different languages and regulatory localisation by providing standards-based mappings to achieve regulatory compliance with regionally varying laws, standards and regulations. The aim is to support and enforce the explicit modelling of aspects particularly relevant to localisation and runtime support consisting of tools and middleware services to automating the deployment based on models of locales, driven by the two localisation dimensions. We focus here on an ontology-based conceptual information model that integrates locale specification in a coherent way.

Software Service Adaptation Based on Interface Localisation

“…We have presented a basic localisation conceptualisation in (Pahl, 2012). Here, we have extended this model by adding a third dimension (SOC) to provide a solution beyond the business application domain.…”

“…In order to define these, we need to consider a data layer and a services layer, each with respective semantic annotations. A multi-lingual, multiontology framework with corresponding facts, rules and mappings is needed (Pahl, 2012). We propose adopting the linked data approach, which has also been followed by other service modelling approaches like USDL -see http:// www.linked-usdl.org/.…”

Rule-based Cloud Service Localisation

“…Currently, cloud computing services suffer from localisation and adaptability issues for multiple users in different regions. These issues could be overcome if a multi-lingual and multi-regional solution was developed (Pahl, 2012;Wang et al, 2010).…”