Title :
Linked USDL Agreement: Effectively Sharing Semantic Service Level Agreements on the Web
Author :
Garcia, Jose Maria ; Pedrinaci, Carlos ; Resinas, Manuel ; Cardoso, Jorge ; Fernandez, Pablo ; Ruiz-Cortes, Antonio
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain
Abstract :
As the use of services available on the Web is becoming mainstream, contracts and legal aspects of the relationship between providers and consumers need to be formalized. However, current proposals to model service level agreements are mostly focused on technical aspects, do not explicitly provide semantics to agreement terms, and do not follow Web principles. These limitations prevent take-up, automatic processing, and effective sharing of agreements. Linked USDL Agreement is a Linked Data based semantic model to describe and share service agreements that extends Linked USDL, which offers a family of languages to describe various technical and business aspects of services. We followed a use case driven approach, evaluating the applicability of our proposal in a cloud computing scenario, and comparing its expressiveness with existing models. Finally, we show a concrete tool that helps to model and check the validity of agreements.
Keywords :
cloud computing; contracts; law; semantic Web; Linked Data based semantic model; World Wide Web; cloud computing scenario; contracts; legal aspects; linked USDL agreement; semantic service level agreements; use case driven approach; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Contracts; Proposals; Semantics; Vocabulary; cloud services; semantic modelling; service level agreements; service trading;
Conference_Titel :
Web Services (ICWS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-7271-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICWS.2015.28