PaaSport semantic model: An ontology for a platform-as-a-service semantically interoperable marketplace

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Highlights：

• PaaSport is a cloud broker between PaaS providers and cloud application developers.

• PaaS offerings and application requirements are annotated with a PaaS OWL ontology.

• The ontology is based on the DUL upper ontology and offers seamless extensibility.

• It optimally supports semantic recommendation of the best-matching offering.

• Evaluation via verification tools, competency questions, query performance tests.

摘要

•PaaSport is a cloud broker between PaaS providers and cloud application developers.•PaaS offerings and application requirements are annotated with a PaaS OWL ontology.•The ontology is based on the DUL upper ontology and offers seamless extensibility.•It optimally supports semantic recommendation of the best-matching offering.•Evaluation via verification tools, competency questions, query performance tests.

论文关键词：Cloud computing,Platform-as-a-Service,Cloud Marketplace,Semantic interoperability,Ontologies,Quality and metrics

论文评审过程：Received 31 January 2017, Revised 13 September 2017, Accepted 8 November 2017, Available online 17 November 2017, Version of Record 5 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2017.11.001