%0 Generic %A Di Martino, Beniamino %A Petcu, Dana %A Cossu, Roberto %A Goncalves, Pedro %A Máhr, Tamás %A Loichate, Miguel %T Building a mosaic of clouds %J Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) %D 2011 %@ 0302-9743 %U https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2723 %X The current diversity of Cloud computing services, benefic for the fast development of a new IT market, hinders the easy development, portability and inter-operability of Cloud oriented applications. Developing an application oriented view of Cloud services instead the current provider ones can lead to a step forward in the adoption of Cloud computing on a larger scale than the actual one. In this context, we present a position paper exposing the concepts behind a recent proposal for an open-source application programming interface and platform for dealing with multiple Cloud computing offers. %~