If an organization depends on the service quality provided by another organization it often enters into a bilateral service level agreement (SLA), which mitigates outsourcing risk...
In the current Internet, business relationships and agreements between peered ISPs do not usually make specific guarantees on reachability, availability or network performance. How...
Panos Georgatsos, Jason Spencer, David Griffin, Ta...
Abstract. Moving towards a global market of services requires flexible infrastructures that will deal with the inevitable semantic heterogeneity that occurs during the negotiation ...
With an expanding of Web services giving same functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available service. So users ne...
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...