—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...
Abstract—Resource management is a key challenge that service providers must adequately face in order to ensure their profitability. This paper describes a proof-of-concept frame...
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negoti...
Farhana H. Zulkernine, Patrick Martin, Chris Cradd...
Abstract: This paper introduces a new method for optimally provisioning and pricing differentiated services, that maximizes profit and maintains a small blocking probability. Reso...
As the Internet evolves into an all-IP communication infrastructure, a key issue to consider is that of creating and managing IP-based services with efficient resource utilization...
Yu Cheng, Ramy Farha, Myung-Sup Kim, Alberto Leon-...