UMBC ebiquity
Cloud computing
Delivery of IT Service is moving away from a single provider mode, and is increasingly based on the composition of multiple services and assets (technological, human, or process) that may be supplied by one or more service providers distributed across the network – in the cloud. Moreover, a single service could be a part of many composite services as needed. The service, in effect, is virtualized on the cloud. Our research in this area is currently concentrated on developing methodology for IT lifecycle in the cloud, developing ontologies for the methodology and determining quality metrics for Services on the cloud