A Goal-Oriented Approach for Self-Configuring Mashup of Cloud Applications

This paper presents a general approach for automatic composing mashups of applications distributed over the cloud. The approach implies to wrap existing services in smart and autonomic entities, namely cloud capabilities. These are able to interact and coordinate themselves in order to establish different ways to orchestrate their contained services. The main enabler of this technology is based on an explicit distinction between user's goals and the way to address them. A couple of language has been adopted to describe respectively the mashup logic in terms of goals and the available functionalities in terms of capabilities. A running example has been developed for extending B2B business processes of a fashion enterprise.