A naive approach for cloud service discovery mechanism using ontology

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging technology which provides computing infrastructure, platform (Operating System, development/testing), software applications and storage as a service on a pay-per-use basis. Although there exists enormous number of services as well as Cloud Service Providers (CSP), identifying the appropriate service as per user requirement has not been addressed yet. The problem has been addressed in the proposed work in two modules. The first module describes about the construction of ontology based on relationship between cloud services and their characteristics. In the second module, a generic based search engine has been developed to search the cloud services for user's requirement. It uses cloud ontology to process the query and fetch the results. The cloud services are ranked on the basis of the cloud service characteristics. The proposed model has been implemented using protégé tool for constructing ontology and packages (owlapi, sparqldl, Jena) for constructing search engine.