Language Classes for Cloud Service Certification Systems

Certification of cloud services aims at increasing the trust of customers towards cloud services and providing comparability between cloud services. Applying the concept of certification to cloud services requires systems which continuously detect ongoing changes of the service and assess their impact on customer requirements. In this paper, we propose eight language classes for cloud service certification systems to facilitate research in design and implementation of these systems. To that end, we draw on language classes developed for signature-based intrusion detection systems and apply them to cloud service certification systems.