Semantic Networks Based Approach for SaaS Management in Cloud Computing

Nowadays, Cloud Computing has emerged as a new model for hosting, managing and delivering services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) over the Internet. Enterprises and vendors are continuously migrating their services to the Cloud, this resulted an exponential amount of data, services and resources stored in data centers. Since there is no standard about Cloud service description or publication, therefore a key requirement that every Cloud provider needs to take into consideration is efficient management of resources and services by providing automated solutions, for a better service publication and discovery. The proposed approach aims to manage Cloud SaaS services for an efficient publication by classifying them into sets according to their domain to reduce the search space then interconnected the SaaS services of the same domain in a Semantic Network using the similarity measure (Input/Output similarity) between concepts. The proposed solution takes advantages from multidimensional index framework, WordNet Domain Ontology and semantic Web. A guided publication process and an implemented prototype are introduced validating the system using a real data set corpus.