In order to detect violations of end-to-end service level agreements (SLA) and to isolate trouble links and nodes based on a unified framework, managers of a service provider net...
The need for service providers to offer SLAs to gain consumers confidence has become increasingly apparent. Our work focuses on providers who manage the execution of long-running d...
Daniel Spaven, Madhavi Rani, Sumit Kumar Bose, Mik...
The agent paradigm includes the notion that agents interact with services. This paper identifies the need for controlled access to such services, from the perspective of agent sys...
Benno J. Overeinder, P. D. Verkaik, Frances M. T. ...
Large complex systems (such as Enterprise systems) are often composed of several interacting, independent components. In many such systems, although the behavior of the constituen...
Abstract As service-based Internet systems get increasingly complex they become harder to manage at design time as well as at runtime. Nowadays, many systems are described in terms...