Information Stewardship in Cloud Ecosystems: Towards Models, Economics, and Delivery

Author

Baldwin, Adrian ; Pym, David ; Sadler, Martin ; Shiu, Simon

Author_Institution

HP Labs., Bristol, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

Nov. 29 2011-Dec. 1 2011

Firstpage

784

Lastpage

791

Abstract

We discuss the concept of information stewardship in cloud-based business ecosystems. The constituent concepts of stewardship -- which we believe will be crucial to the successful development of cloud-based business of all kinds -- extend those of security to encompass concepts of objectives, ethics/values, sustainability, and resilience: all familiar from the stewardship of natural resources. Our view is based on rigorous approaches from mathematical systems modelling and economics, and is informed by concepts from natural resource management and information assurance.

Keywords

cloud computing; commerce; ecology; ethical aspects; information management; natural resources; security of data; sustainable development; cloud based business ecosystem; economics; information assurance; information stewardship; mathematical system modelling; natural resource management; resilience; sustainability; Biological system modeling; Companies; Economics; Ecosystems; Mathematical model; Security; cloud computing; cloud ecosystems; information assurance; information security; information stewardship; mathematical modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0090-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CloudCom.2011.121

Filename

6133230