Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are explicit statements about all expectations and obligations in the business partnership between customers and providers. They have been introduc...
Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, James Padgett, Georg ...
Next generation applications and architectures (for example, Grids) are driving radical changes in the nature of traffic, service models, technology, and cost, creating opportunit...
Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Doug Cutrell, Howard J....
In this paper, we introduce an XML-based Hierarchical QoS Markup Language, called HQML, to enhance distributed multimedia applications on the World Wide Web (WWW) with Quality of ...
— Services-oriented architectures hold a lot of promise for grid-enabling scientific applications. In recent times, Web services have gained wide-spread acceptance in the Grid c...
Sriram Krishnan, Kim Baldridge, Jerry P. Greenberg...
—As a result of the wide spread of new efficient mobile communication devices, users are more and more willing to find on these devices (PDAs, Smartphones, etc) applications si...
Amir Krifa, Mohamed Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, Thi...