Collaborative Integration and Management of Community Information in the Cloud

The cloud computing paradigm has been receiving much attention recently, and data management applications such as e-business are potential candidates for deployment in the cloud. In this paper, we introduce CloudCDI, which is a platform for collaborative integration and management of community information in the cloud. We present the architecture for CloudCDI, which is based on cloud computing framework to facilitate collaborative management and pay-as-you-go integration of data in data centers. Furthermore, a unified data model, Resource Net Model, is put forward to represent unstructured, semi-structured and structured data inside a single model. We design a hierarchical resource view model to enable best-effort cooperation for community members. In order to access data in CloudCDI conveniently and efficiently, a scaleable query model is also proposed to facilitate users to move seamlessly from one query mode to another.