Topic Map Based Ontology Model for SaaS Application in Cloud Computing

In cloud computing environment, identifying and making an ontology model to use SaaS application is very important role in order to find the software applications and use their services efficiently. However, recently, the research about ontology model for SaaS lacked. In this research, we proposed an ontology model for SaaS applications in cloud computing environment. In this model, in order to considered their relation between the SaaS applications, we made Topic Map model on the ontology. The Topic was SaaS applications, systems, and servers. In the Topic Model, we defined the Topic relation and matching function with the Topics. Finally, we made Topic Map based ontology model by 4 layers, Topic, Instance, Association and Occurrence.