BiCloud-2M: A Combined Bigraph Maude-based Tool for Cloud Specification and Analysis

Service availability is a challenging issue in Cloud Computing. It implies continuous reconfiguration of cloud architecture by adding or removing different resources (virtual machines, services...) to ensure the suited quality of service. Thus a main goal in Cloud systems design is to model and analyse cloud architecture and its dynamic reconfiguration. Based on Bigraphical Reactive Systems (BRS) theory as a semantic framework and Maude language as an executable specification language, we propose a tool called BiCloud2M offering a formal support for specifying and analysing cloud architecture systems. In this paper, we describe the BiCloud-2M implementation, and how it can be used to verify some cloud inherent properties.