Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs

Cloud computing has enabled users to access various resources and applications as a service and in return pay the provider only for the time for which they are used. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are formed between the user and provider to ensure that the required services and applications are deli...

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Main Authors: Hussain, Omar, Dong, Hai, Singh, Jaipal
Other Authors: Robert Meersman
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28292
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description Cloud computing has enabled users to access various resources and applications as a service and in return pay the provider only for the time for which they are used. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are formed between the user and provider to ensure that the required services and applications are delivered as expected. With the increase of public cloud providers, challenges such as availability, reliability, security, privacy and transactional risk demand detail assessment while forming SLAs. This paper focuses on one sub-category of transactional risk while forming SLAs; namely performance risk. We argue that performance risk assessment should be done by the user before entering into a SLA with a service provider. We propose to measure performance risk according to the specific context and assessment criteria with the aid of a semantic similarity model for the SLA requirement being negotiated in a cloud computing environment. We show through simulations that the performance risk analysis is more accurate using semantic similarity matching compared with risk analysis without semantic similarity matching.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-282922023-01-13T07:56:32Z Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs Hussain, Omar Dong, Hai Singh, Jaipal Robert Meersman Tharam Dillon Pilar Herrero Context Assessment Criteria Cloud Computing Semantic Similarity Model Service Level Agreement Performance Risk Cloud computing has enabled users to access various resources and applications as a service and in return pay the provider only for the time for which they are used. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are formed between the user and provider to ensure that the required services and applications are delivered as expected. With the increase of public cloud providers, challenges such as availability, reliability, security, privacy and transactional risk demand detail assessment while forming SLAs. This paper focuses on one sub-category of transactional risk while forming SLAs; namely performance risk. We argue that performance risk assessment should be done by the user before entering into a SLA with a service provider. We propose to measure performance risk according to the specific context and assessment criteria with the aid of a semantic similarity model for the SLA requirement being negotiated in a cloud computing environment. We show through simulations that the performance risk analysis is more accurate using semantic similarity matching compared with risk analysis without semantic similarity matching. 2010 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28292 Springer restricted
spellingShingle Context
Assessment Criteria
Cloud Computing
Semantic Similarity Model
Service Level Agreement
Performance Risk
Hussain, Omar
Dong, Hai
Singh, Jaipal
Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title_full Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title_fullStr Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title_full_unstemmed Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title_short Semantic Similarity Model for Risk Assessment in Forming Cloud Computing SLAs
title_sort semantic similarity model for risk assessment in forming cloud computing slas
topic Context
Assessment Criteria
Cloud Computing
Semantic Similarity Model
Service Level Agreement
Performance Risk
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28292