A Semantic Registry for Cloud Services

In the context of the efforts to organize the knowledge in the new and emerging area of Cloud Computing we performed an analysis of relevant existing developments and built on this basis a framework for a semantic registry of cloud services. The framework contains core ontological definitions and extension mechanisms used to define ontologies for cloud services, related to the aspects of semantic discovery and composition of cloud services. The relevance of the proposed registry can be assessed in relation with cloud interoperability, cloud service composition, as well as software services that offer support for finding and selecting cloud services and for marketing advantages of different cloud providers.