With the number of e-Business applications dramatically increasing, a service level agreement (SLA) will play an important part in Web services. The SLA is a combination of severa...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...
Abstract—Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless t...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
To provide formal foundations to current (web) services technologies, we put forward using COWS, a process calculus for specifying, combining and analysing services, as a uniform ...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
—It is clear that Cloud computing is and will be a sea change for the Information Technology by changing the way in which both software and hardware are designed and purchased. I...