Formal representation of service interactions for SaaS based applications

Author

Mandal, Ashis Kumar ; Sarkar, Anirban

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Applic., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Durgapur, India

fYear

2014

fDate

17-19 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Conceptualization of different aspects of cloud applications and formal representations of interactions among the different components of SaaS are most crucial issues towards the design of an effective cloud architectural framework. In this paper a graph-based specification called Cloud Service Architecture Graph (CSAG) has been proposed to model such interactions among various components of Software as a Service (SaaS). CSAG is capable of addressing several important aspects like extendibility, composability, analyzability etc. for SaaS based applications over cloud environment. Moreover, several properties of CSAG shows that the proposed approach is effective towards the design of a SaaS based applications. The proposed CSAG has been illustrated using the case study of Electronic Health Record (EHR) system over cloud environment.

Keywords

cloud computing; formal specification; graph theory; software architecture; CSAG; EHR system; SaaS based applications; cloud applications; cloud architectural framework; cloud service architecture graph; electronic health record system; formal representations; graph-based specification; service interactions; software as a service; Business; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Databases; Electronic medical records; Medical diagnostic imaging; Software as a service; Cloud Architecture; Iinterface; SaaS Architecture; Service Architecture Graph; Software as a Service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT), 2014 Fifth International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2258-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICADIWT.2014.6814700

Filename

6814700