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Clouds are emerging as an important class of distributed computational resources and are quickly becoming an integral part of production computational infrastructures. An importan...
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Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are explicit statements about all expectations and obligations in the business partnership between customers and providers. They have been introduc...
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Commercial tools are heavily used, relatively cheap, well maintained, and provide powerful functionalities. However, composing these tools in order to build larger applications ra...
Often the process and effort in building interoperable Command and Control (C2) systems and simulations can be arduous. Invariably the difficulty is in understanding what is inten...