Paper accepted by SoSyM

We are happy to announce that our paper "MoDMaCAO: A model-driven framework for the design, validation and configuration management of cloud applications based on OCCI" was recently accepted by the Software and Systems Modeling journal. The paper is a joint work of our group members Fabian Korte, Johannes Erbel, and Jens Grabowski with the researchers Philippe Merle, Stéphanie Challita, and Faiez Zalila from INRIA. In the paper, a model-driven framework is presented that extends the OCCI standard to support the management of platform elements on top of infrastructural resources using configuration management script. Hereby, we defined a framework to support the design, validation and management of cloud applications by utilizing the uniform interface and data model of OCCI.