Section: New Software and Platforms

CSLA

Cloud Service Level Agreement language

Keywords: Cloud computing - Service-level agreement - Elasticity

Functional Description

CSLA, the Cloud Service Level Agreement language, allows the definition of SLA properties for arbitrary Cloud services (XaaS). CSLA addresses QoS uncertainty in unpredictable and dynamic environment and provides a cost model of Cloud computing. Besides the standard formal definition of contracts – comprising validity, parties, services definition and guarantees/violations – CSLA is enriched with features, such as QoS degradation and an advanced penalty model, thus introducing fine-grained language support for Cloud elasticity management.

• Participants: Thomas Ledoux and Yousri Kouki

• Contact: Thomas Ledoux

• URL: http://www.emn.fr/z-info/csla/