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Programming Hybrid Services in the Cloud

Programming Hybrid Services in the Cloud

  • Hong-Linh Truong20,
  • Schahram Dustdar20 &
  • Kamal Bhattacharya21 
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Abstract

For solving complex problems, we advocate constructing “social computers” which combine software and human services. However, to date, human capabilities cannot be easily programmed into applications in a similar way like software capabilities. Existing approaches exploiting human capabilities via crowds do not support well on-demand, proactive, team-based human computation. In this paper, we explore a new way to virtualize, provision and program human capabilities using cloud computing concepts and service delivery models. We propose novel methods for modeling clouds of human-based services and combine human-based services with software-based services to establish clouds of hybrid services. In our model, we present common APIs, similar to APIs for software services, to access individual and team-based compute units in clouds of human-based services. Based on that, we propose frameworks and programming primitives for hybrid services. We illustrate our concepts via some examples of using our cloud APIs and existing cloud APIs for software.

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  1. Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Hong-Linh Truong & Schahram Dustdar

  2. IBM Research, India

    Kamal Bhattacharya

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  1. Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, 3122, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

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  2. IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, 95120, San Jose, CA, USA

    Heiko Ludwig

  3. LIMOS - UMR 6158, Blaise Pascal University, Complexe scientifique des Cézeaux, 63177, Aubiere, France

    Farouk Toumani

  4. College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, 14623, Rochester, NY, USA

    Qi Yu

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Truong, HL., Dustdar, S., Bhattacharya, K. (2012). Programming Hybrid Services in the Cloud. In: Liu, C., Ludwig, H., Toumani, F., Yu, Q. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34321-6_7

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