CloudOntoViz: A Browser for Knowledge-Based Representations of Cloud Patterns and Services

Cloud computing is a complex and articulated semantic structure designed to facilitate the discovery, composition, and integration of cloud services offered by different providers. The cloud services reference ontology, in its current version, represents an articulated and complex semantic structure that facilitates the interoperability and portability between different cloud platforms. This work builds on previous research that has explored the use of semantic representations in cloud computing to improve the portability, interoperability, and automatic discovery of cloud systems. This paper proposes a series of improvements to simplify the class hierarchy, making it more readable and intuitive, and to enrich it with new classes, object properties, and data properties in order to expand the descriptive capacity and improve the accuracy and detail of the semantic description. The work presented here is based on a critical review of existing ontologies, accompanied by expansion to meet emerging challenges in the cloud computing.