• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1014-1025
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• 2020

Cloud computing services changed the way the data are managed across the healthcare system that can improve patient care. Currently, most healthcare organizations are using cloud-based applications and related services to deliver better healthcare facilities. But architecting a cloud-based healthcare system needs deep knowledge about the working nature of these services and the requirements of the healthcare environment. The success is based on the usage of appropriate cloud services in the architecture to manage the data flow across the healthcare system.Cloud service providers offer a wide variety of services to ingest, store and process healthcare data securely. The top three public cloud providers- Amazon, Google, and Microsoft offers advanced cloud services for the solution that the healthcare industry is looking for. This article proposes a framework that can effectively utilize cloud services to handle the data flow among the various stages of the healthcare infrastructure. The useful cloud services for ingesting, storing and analyzing the healthcare data for the proposed framework, from the top three cloud providers are listed in this work. Finally, a cloud-based healthcare architecture using Amazon Cloud Services is constructed for reference.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.315-320
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• 2021

Currently, cloud computing is being used as a technology that greatly changes the IT field. For many businesses, many cloud services are available in the form of custom, reliable, and cost-effective web applications. Most cloud service providers provide functions such as IoT, machine learning, AI services, blockchain, AR & VR, mobile services, and containers in addition to basic cloud services that support the scalability of processors, memory, and storage. In this paper, we will look at the most used cloud service providers and compare the services provided by the cloud service providers.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.109-137
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• 2014

As the fast development of information technology (IT), abundant attractive alternatives have showed up and challenged to the traditional information technology (IT). Cloud services, the hottest representative among these alternatives, has attracted the attention from all walks of life. Considering the diversity of cloud services, this study attempts to find out the important factors affected on individual's switching intention from incumbent IT to cloud services mainly based on two-factor theory (switching enablers and switching inhibitors) and explore the direct influences of these factors on individual's switching intention. According to our findings, individual's switching intention to cloud services is not only positively influenced by switching enablers but also negatively influenced by switching inhibitors. All the switching enablers in this study (perceived omnipresence, perceived collaboration support and perceived compatibility of cloud services) have positively significant influences on individual's switching intention as well as the switching inhibitors (usage habit of incumbent IT and perceived risk of cloud services) have negatively significant influences on individual's switching intention. It's noteworthy that satisfaction of incumbent IT has insignificant influence on individual's switching intention in this study. Moreover, as we expected, both social influence and personal innovativeness have significant influences on the generation of individual's switching intention.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.664-669
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• 2014

클라우드 컴퓨팅 패러다임이 성행하면서 IaaS, PaaS, SaaS 유형의 클라우드 서비스가 나타나고 있다. 제공되는 클라우드 서비스의 다양화로 인해 클라우드 테넌트(사용자)의 요구사항에 적합한 클라우드 서비스를 중개하는 기술인 서비스 브로커 기술이 최근 들어 관심을 받고 있다. 클라우드 서비스를 중개하기 위해서 다양한 클라우드 서비스의 체계적인 등록, 분석, 검색을 지원할 수 있는 클라우드 서비스 명세 모델이 필요하다. 본 논문은 다양한 유형의 클라우드 서비스를 명세하기 위한 가변성 기반의 클라우드 서비스 분석 모델(SAM)을 제시한다. SAM은 소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인의 가변성 개념을 적용하여 클라우드 서비스를 명세할 때 기능, 품질, 가격 측면에서 나타날 수 있는 가변점에 가변값을 바인딩함으로써 클라우드 서비스의 공통성과 가변성을 나타낸다. 또한, SAM을 이용하여 테넌트에게 클라우드 서비스를 중개하는 브로커로서의 가상 클라우드 뱅크의 구조를 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.38-57
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• 2016

Service discovery is one of the major challenges in cloud computing environment with a large number of service providers and heterogeneous services. Non-uniform naming conventions, varied types and features of services make cloud service discovery a grueling problem. With the proliferation of cloud services, it has been laborious to find services, especially from Internet-based service repositories. To address this issue, services are crawled and clustered according to their similarity. The clustered services are maintained as a catalogue in which the data published on the cloud provider's website are stored in a standard format. As there is no standard specification and a description language for cloud services, new efficient and intelligent mechanisms to discover cloud services are strongly required and desired. This paper also proposes a key-value representation to describe cloud services in a formal way and to facilitate matching between offered services and demand. Since naïve users prefer to have a query in natural language, semantic approaches are used to close the gap between the ambiguous user requirements and the service specifications. Experimental evaluation measured in terms of precision and recall of retrieved services shows that the proposed approach outperforms existing methods.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2017

Cloud computing is cost-effective in terms of system configuration and maintenance and does not require special IT skills for management. Also, cloud computing provides an access control setting where SSO is adopted to secure user convenience and availability. As the SSO user authentication structure of cloud computing is exposed to quite a few external security threats in wire/wireless network integrated service environment, researchers explore technologies drawing on distributed SSO agents. Yet, although the cloud computing access control using the distributed SSO agents enhances security, it impacts on the availability of services. That is, if any single agent responsible for providing the authentication information fails to offer normal services, the cloud computing services become unavailable. To rectify the environment compromising the availability of cloud computing services, and to protect resources, the current paper proposes a security policy that controls the authority to access the resources for cloud computing services by applying the authentication policy of user authentication agents. The proposed system with its policy of the authority to access the resources ensures seamless and secure cloud computing services for users.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권9호
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• pp.1090-1099
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• 2015

클라우드 컴퓨팅 패러다임의 등장에 따라 다수의 클라우드 서비스와 클라우드 사용자를 연계해 주는 CSB(Cloud Service Brokerage) 라는 개념이 제시되었다. CSB 에 등록되어 비슷한 기능을 제공하는 클라우드 서비스들은 제공자마다 성능, 가격 등에 차이가 있으므로, 클라우드 사용자가 클라우드 서비스를 사용하기 위해 적합한 서비스를 찾기 어렵다. 따라서 다수의 클라우드 서비스 중에서 클라우드 사용자의 요구사항에 가장 적합한 클라우드 서비스를 찾아주는 방법을 CSB 에서 핵심적으로 고려해야 한다. 본 논문은 클라우드 사용자의 요구사항을 수집하고 분석하는 방법과 다양한 클라우드 서비스를 명세하는 SAM을 포함하는 CSB 로써 가상 클라우드 뱅크 아키텍처를 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시한 가상 클라우드 뱅크 아키텍처는 클라우드 사용자의 요구사항에 적합한 클라우드 서비스 제공을 위한 CSB의 참조아키텍처로 활용할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Cloud computing has proven its efficiency, especially after the increasing number of cloud services offered by a wide range of cloud providers, from different domains. Despite, these cloud services are mostly heterogeneous. Consequently, and due to the rising interest of cloud consumers to adhere to a multi-cloud environment instead of being locked-in to one cloud provider, the need for semantically interconnecting different cloud services from different cloud providers is a crucial and important task to ensure. In addition, considerable research efforts proposed interoperability solutions leading to different representation models of cloud services. In this work, we present our solution to overcome this limitation, precisely in the IAAS service model. This solution is a framework permitting the semantic interoperability of different IAAS resources in a multi-cloud environment, in order to assist cloud consumers to retrieve the cloud resource that meets specific requirements.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권12호
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• pp.2294-2314
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• 2011

The key issue in providing fast and reliable access on cloud services is the effective management of resources in a cloud system. However, the high variation in cloud service access rates affects the system performance considerably when there are no default routines to handle this type of occurrence. Adaptive techniques are used in resource management to support robust systems and maintain well-balanced loads within the servers. This paper presents an adaptive resource management for cloud systems which supports the integration of intelligent methods to promote quality of service (QoS) in provisioning of cloud services. A technique of dynamically assigning cloud services to a group of cloud servers is proposed for the adaptive resource management. Initially, cloud services are collected based on the excess cloud services load and then these are deployed to the assigned cloud servers. The assignment function uses the proposed proportional ordering which efficiently assigns cloud services based on its resource consumption. The difference in resource consumption rate in all nodes is analyzed periodically which decides the execution of service assignment. Performance evaluation showed that the proposed dynamic service assignment (DSA) performed best in throughput performance compared to other resource allocation algorithms.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.173-186
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• 2018

클라우드 서비스가 확대되고 있지만, 많은 이용자들은 클라우드 서비스의 도입에 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이는 이용자 입장에서 어떤 클라우드 서비스를 신뢰할 수 있는지에 대한 정보가 없기 때문이다. 클라우드 서비스수준협약(클라우드 SLA)은 클라우드 서비스를 제공하는 공급자와 이용자간에 서비스의 품질과 성능 등을 포함한 정성적인 지표와 정량적 지표를 이용하여 협의하는 것이다. 이 연구에서는 클라우드 서비스 사업자의 서비스 수준을 향상하고 이용자를 보호하기 위해 국내 클라우드 산업에 적용할 수 있는 클라우드 SLA를 위한 프레임워크 제안하고 이를 이용하여 국내 클라우드 산업에 적용할 수 있는 클라우드 SLA의 세부 구성항목을 도출하고자 한다. 이를 통해 정부의 "클라우드컴퓨팅 발전 및 이용자 보호에 관한 법률" 체계하의 클라우드 서비스 제공자와 이용자간의 신뢰도 향상을 위한 정책적 활용은 물론 궁극적으로 국내 클라우드 서비스의 품질 성능 수준 향상 및 이용자 신뢰기반 조성을 통해 클라우드 서비스의 활성화를 기대한다.