@conference {16338, title = {A holistic service provisioning solution for Federated Cloud infrastructures}, booktitle = {2012 1st International Workshop on European Software Services and Systems Research - Results and Challenges, S-Cube 2012}, year = {2012}, pages = {25{\textendash}26}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Cloud Computing builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid Computing, Service-oriented computing, business process modeling and virtualization. As this new computing paradigm was mostly lead by companies, several proprietary systems arisen. Recently, alongside these commercial systems, several smaller-scale privately owned systems are maintained and developed. In this paper we present our research results performed within the S-Cube European {FP}7 {NoE} project to enable automated service provisioning for users on a highly dynamic infrastructure consisting of multiple Cloud providers. We developed a Federated Cloud Management architecture that provides unified access to a federated Cloud that aggregates multiple heterogeneous {IaaS} Cloud providers in a transparent manner. We have also incorporated an integrated monitoring approach that enables more reliable provider selection in these heterogeneous environments. {\textcopyright} 2012 IEEE.}, author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and N{\'e}meth, Zsolt and M. Oriol and X. Franch} }