Accountability for Service Compliance: A Survey

摘要: In recent years, a range of innovations in the 'service' related technologies have been witnessed, namely SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Meanwhile, Service Oriented Architecture SOA enables composing different services seamlessly to form new service network. The combination two trends allow individual organizations overcome their limitation computing resources obtain maximum value functionality themselves can provide. One major issue with such massive composition is verify compliance participating entities. Composed usually span several administrative domains, where each has its own priorities. Given fact that an admission violation may cause penalties, it conceivable entity intend deceive. To tackle this issue, 'accountability' emerged as promising concept achieve system trustworthiness. Recently, accountability received considerable attention research communities, many approaches proposed. survey, authors discuss desirable properties accountability, clarify requirements differences distinguish other approaches, systematically summarize evaluate various accountability.