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Cloud Accountability: Glossary of Terms and Definitions

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Accountability and Security in the Cloud (A4Cloud 2014)

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The Glossary of Terms and Definitions captures a shared multidisciplinary understanding within the EU FP7 Cloud Accountability Project (A4Cloud). It consists of the key terms that have been identified by the A4Cloud’s Accountability Conceptual Framework. The definitions in the glossary have been drawn from relevant research literature, standards or domain specific references (e.g. data protection, cloud computing, information security, privacy, etc.). The A4Cloud’s Accountability Conceptual Framework has proposed (or revised) definitions of those terms that are central to concept of accountability (and related attributes). The glossary is the result of a collaborative effort of the A4Cloud project. The final glossary consists of over 150 terms (drawn from an initial list of over 700 terms) selected for their relevance to accountability. It consists of the core accountability terms that have been defined and used across the A4Cloud project.

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This glossary of terms and definitions consists of the A4Cloud terms defined and introduced in [1]. It also includes terms drawn from standards and other references – for such terms if the definition is an exact quotation from the reference given, quotation marks and an italics font are used to indicate this; otherwise the provided definition is derived from a close adaptation of the text within the referenced source. This work has been partly funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement 317550, Cloud Accountability Project – http://www.a4cloud.eu/ – (A4CLOUD). I would also like to thank all project colleagues who contributed to this glossary of terms and definitions, in particular, Rehab Alnemr, Monir Azraoui, Karin Bernsmed, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Bushra Hasnain, Eleni Kosta, Theofrastos Koulouris, Ronald Leenes, Christopher Millard, Maartje Niezen, David Nuñez, Melek Önen, Alain Pannetrat, Nick Papanikolaou, Siani Pearson, Daniel Pradelles, Chris Reed, Christoph Reich, Jean-Claude Royer, Anderson Santana de Oliveira, Dimitra Stefanatou, Vasilis Tountopoulos, Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk.

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Felici, M. (2015). Cloud Accountability: Glossary of Terms and Definitions. In: Felici, M., Fernández-Gago, C. (eds) Accountability and Security in the Cloud. A4Cloud 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8937. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17199-9_13

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