A taxonomic view of cloud computing services

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-28

  Fortiş, Teodor Florin ^a   Munteanu, Victor Ion ^a   Negru, Viorel ^b  

^a Research Institute E Austria   (Romania)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cloud brokerage; Cloud computing; Cloud governance; Cloud management; Cloud services; Cloud taxonomy; Semantic cloud; Service ontology

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; INTEROPERABILITY; LIFE CYCLE; SEMANTICS; WEB SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; CLOUD GOVERNANCES; CLOUD MANAGEMENTS; CLOUD SERVICES; EFFICIENT MONITORING; ELEMENTARY BUILDING BLOCKS; SERVICE ONTOLOGY; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE;

VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

EID: 84940558798     PISSN: 17427185     EISSN: 17427193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.071360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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