DrACO: Discovering Available Cloud Offerings

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This repository contains the source code of the implementation of the cloud offering discovery approach that has been presented in

A. Brogi, P. Cifariello, J. Soldani
DrACO: Discovering Available Cloud Offerings.
Computer Science: Research and Development, Springer, 2016.

If you wish to reuse the sources in this repository, please properly cite the above mentioned paper. Below you can find the BibTex reference:

@article{DrACO,
  author = {Antonio Brogi and Paolo Cifariello and Jacopo Soldani},
  title = {{DrACO}: {D}iscovering {A}vailable {C}loud {O}fferings},
  journal = {Computer Science: Research and Development},
  volume = {},
  pages = {},
  year = {2016},
  note = {{\em [In Press]}},
  doi = {10.1007/s00450-016-0332-5}
}

Running DrACO

The DrACO discoverer can be automatically installed on Unix machines, provided that they are equipped with a bash shell supporting the commands maven and mongo.

If this is the case, to install and start the DrACO discoverer just proceed as follows:

1. Open a bash shell,
2. move to the folder where DrACO has been downloaded, and
3. type sudo ./start.sh.

Once DrACO is running, to stop it just type sudo ./stop.sh.