[occi-wg] A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform with OCCI

[Philippe Merle]

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "A Precise Model for 
Google Cloud Platform" was accepted at the IEEE International Conference 
on Cloud Engineering - IC2E 2018.

Title: A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform

Abstract: Today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leaders among 
cloud APIs. Although it was established only five years ago, GCP has 
gained notable expansion due to its suite of public cloud services that 
it based on a huge, solid infrastructure. GCP allows developers to use 
these services by accessing GCP RESTful API that is described through 
HTML pages on its website. However, the documentation of GCP API is 
written in natural language (English prose) and therefore shows several 
drawbacks, such as Informal Heterogeneous Documentation, Imprecise 
Types, Implicit Attribute Metadata, Hidden Links, Redundancy and Lack of 
Visual Support. To avoid confusion and misunderstandings, the cloud 
developers obviously need a precise specification of the knowledge and 
activities in GCP. Therefore, this paper introduces GCP MODEL, an 
inferred formal model-driven specification of GCP which describes 
without ambiguity the resources offered by GCP. GCP MODEL is conform to 
the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) metamodel and is implemented 
based on the open source model-driven Eclipse-based OCCIWARE tool chain. 
Thanks to our GCP MODEL, we offer corrections to the drawbacks we 
identified.

The camera-ready version is available at 
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659/document.

For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659.

Best regards
Philippe Merle

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Philippe Merle
Inria researcher
http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/