CSEE Colloquium

Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in Cloud Environments

Karuna Pande Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

1:00pm Friday 7 October 2011, ITE 227, UMBC

Virtualized service models are now emerging and redefining the way information technology (IT) is delivered. Managing these services efficiently over the cloud is an open challenge. For my PhD dissertation research, I have proposed a semantically rich, policy-based framework to automate the lifecycle of cloud services.  In this talk, I will describe the proposed methodology for the lifecycle of IT services delivered on the cloud.  I have divided the IT service lifecycle into five phases of requirements, discovery, negotiation, composition, and consumption and will detail each phase and list the high level ontologies that I have developed for them.  This research complements previous work on ontologies for service descriptions in that it goes beyond simple matchmaking and is focused on supporting negotiation for the particulars of IT services.  I will also describe the web-based prototype system that we are developing in collaboration with NIST. We are using Semantic Web technologies to represent and reason about services and service requirements.

Karuna P Joshi is a Ph.D. student in the computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and an IT Project Manager with over 15 years of industrial experience. She worked at the International Monetary Fund for over nine years. She has also worked for MORENet, Missouri and Silverline Industries Ltd. in India. Her managerial experience includes Portfolio Management, Program/Project Management and Change Management. She has managed projects across various domains including Databases, Web Content Management, Document Management, Web/Database Integration, Helpdesk Applications, IT Knowledge/Information Management, Facilities Applications and Network/Telecom Applications. Karuna P Joshi is currently pursuing PhD in Computer Science in the field of Services Sciences Management and Engineering (SSME) and Distributed Web Systems from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She has been awarded the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship for 2011-12. She completed her MS in Computer Science from UMBC in 1999 and her Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai, India in 1993. Apart from SSME, her research interests also include Databases, Web Technologies and Data mining.