Linked USDL Extension for Describing Business Services and Users' Requirements in a Cloud Context

Hind Benfenatki (1, 2) , Catarina Ferreira da Silva (1) , Aïcha-Nabila Benharkat (1) , Parisa Ghodous (1, 2) , Zakaria Maamar (3)

1 SOC - Service Oriented Computing
2 UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
3 Zayed University

Linked Unified Service Description Language (Linked USDL) provides a comprehensive way for describing services from operational, technical, and business perspectives. However, this description treats services as isolated components that offer functionalities only without emphasis on how they are used. This paper discusses how to extend Linked USDL in a way that permits to describe the services of a marketplace in support of automating the provisioning of service-oriented cloud-based business applications along with satisfying users' requirements. The marketplace consists of business services that can be composed and specialized services that act on behalf of the infrastructure upon which these applications are deployed. A set of experiments demonstrating the use of the extended Linked USDL are also presented in the paper.

Mots clés: Linked USDL; marketplace; service composition; service description

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Informatique [cs]

Hind Benfenatki, Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Aïcha-Nabila Benharkat, Parisa Ghodous, Zakaria Maamar. Linked USDL Extension for Describing Business Services and Users' Requirements in a Cloud Context. In International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering, 2017, 7 (3), pp.15 - 31. ⟨10.4018/IJSSOE.2017070102⟩. ⟨hal-01643672⟩