Paper Title
Federated Taxonomies Toward Infrastructure-As-A-Service Evaluation

Abstract
Several cloud computing taxonomies are recently presented with different scopes in minds, thus supplementing one another. A set of these taxonomies can guide cloud computing consumers to the systematic evaluation of public cloud computing services of their interests. This paper presents the federation of consumer-side Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) taxonomies. We semantically analyzed and identified the inherent redundancy of their concepts to facilitate the simultaneous utilization of multiple IaaS taxonomies as a powerful evaluation tool. Index Terms� Cloud Computing, Federation, Infrastructure as a Service, Redundancy, Taxonomy; Tenant.