FC4CD: a new SOA-based Focused Crawler for Cloud service Discovery

In this paper, we propose a Focused Crawler for Cloud service Discovery (FC4DC). Its service oriented architecture ensures an easier modification for rapid updating and better performance. Furthermore, the proposed crawler guarantees saving the search time and a better exploitation of the provider offerings thanks to a dedicated Cloud service description ontology. We finally present some experiments to evaluate the proposed crawler and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency.