Preference-based selection of highly configurable web services
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
A static compliance-checking framework for business process models
IBM Systems Journal
LASS --- License Aware Service Selection: Methodology and Framework
ICSOC '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Service Selection Based on Non-functional Properties
Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops
Managing license compliance in free and open source software development
Information Systems Frontiers
New frontiers in cloud computing research
Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Virtualization technologies in distributed computing
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Enterprise software is typically licensed through contracts that require organizations to monitor their own usage of the software and purchase the number or amount of licenses required by the vendor's terms and conditions for that software. Vendors reserve the right to audit an organization's use of their software, and if an organization is under-licensed, costly back-payments may be required. For this reason, organizations go to great expense to maintain a complete and accurate inventory of their software so that they know their license obligations. The cloud, as an environment offering both greater flexibility in, and a higher degree of control over, an enterprise's computing infrastructure, presents both new challenges for license compliance as well as new opportunities. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to producing accurate software inventories based on capturing the knowledge that is present in cloud management systems at the time of software provisioning and installation. We also demonstrate new capabilities for rule-based alerting and enforcement that are made possible by our approach.