Model-Driven Incremental Development of Cloud Services Oriented to the Customer’s Value (Value@Cloud)

Source of subsidy

The Spanish Ministry of Economy and competitiveness (MINECO project), with ref. TIN2013-46300-R (RETOS Subprogram)

Professors involved

  • Javier González-Huerta
  • 8 autres chercheurs de l’université « Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain »
  • 2 autres chercheurs de « Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal »

Summary

Cloud Computing represents a fundamental shift in how cloud applications should be built, deployed, executed, and controlled. Aiming to be competitive in the current economy, organizations, especially SMEs, should be able to quickly offer new cloud services ensuring a high-level of quality, cost and flexibility meanwhile satisfying the customers changing needs. Current approaches for developing cloud services mainly focus on the functionality to be offered and on the technology to be used rather than on the value to be provided to customers.

The aim of this project is to provide a framework to support model-driven incremental cloud service development oriented to the customer’s value. Specifically, we will investigate how software development teams can identify, create, deploy, and monitor cloud services incrementally by using principles and practices established in model-driven development and business process improvement.

In order to achieve this objective, we set up a multidisciplinary research team composed by professors and researchers from the field of software engineering and business administration. Furthermore, 12 companies from Spain and Europe will participate in this project as “Promoter and Observer Entities – EPO” to provide realistic scenarios where to identify relevant problems and to propose solutions suitable for agile development environments and to allow a smoothly incremental adoption of the technology to be developed in this project.

Finally, the high interest shown by the EPOs in this project and also the high research activity in academia around the project’s topics show that the challenges to be faced in this project and the proposed strategy are novel and try to answer real industrial needs related to the development, innovation and adoption of technologies and solutions based on cloud computing.