Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering

CentER Working Paper Series No. 2011-067

Posted: 11 Jun 2011

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Dinh Khoa Nguyen

Tilburg University - European Research Institute in Service Science (ERISS)

Date Written: June 9, 2011

Abstract

Current cloud-based service offerings are often provided as one-size-fits-all solution and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability for application developers to pick and choose offerings from multiple software, platform and infrastructure service providers and configure them dynamically and in an optimal fashion to address their application requirements. Furthermore, combining different independent cloud-based services necessitates a uniform description format that facilitates their design, customization, and composition. Hence, there is a need to break down the monolithic offerings into loosely-coupled cloud services offered by multiple providers that can be flexibly customized and (re-)composed in different settings. We propose in this paper the Blueprint concept - a uniform abstract description for cloud service offerings that may cross different cloud computing layers, i.e. software, platform and infrastructure. Using the proposed Blueprint Template for engineering cloud service offerings will solve these shortcomings and subsequently lower the barrier to entry for cloud computing.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud-based Service Engineering, Blueprint Template, Service-oriented Computing, Service-oriented Architecture

JEL Classification: M15

Suggested Citation

Nguyen, Dinh Khoa, Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering (June 9, 2011). CentER Working Paper Series No. 2011-067, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1861152 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1861152

Dinh Khoa Nguyen (Contact Author)

Tilburg University - European Research Institute in Service Science (ERISS) ( email )

Warandelaan 2
Tilburg, 5037
Netherlands

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