Service level agreements (SLAs), or contracts, have an important role in web services. These contracts define the obligations and rights between the provider of a web service and i...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
The Internet today can be seen as a global market for electronic services. Each provider can offer its services, and customers can choose between several providers offering simila...
In spite of significant work on real-time content distribution, providing consistent service quality across the Internet remains a challenge. Multicast applications further exace...
QoS (Quality of Service) support in Web services is an important issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client and, in addition, improves server utilization...
Although Web services are intended for short term, ad hoc collaborations, in practice many Web service compositions are offered longterm to customers. While the Web services makin...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...