Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...
In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agre...
Nicole Oldham, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....
Effective and efficient Quality of Service (QoS) management is critical for a service grid to meet the requirements of both grid users and service providers. We introduce Q-GSM, a ...
Resource management for dynamic, distributed real-time systems requires handling of unknown arrival rates for data and events; additional desiderata include: accommodation of heter...
Eui-nam Huh, Lonnie R. Welch, Behrooz Shirazi, Bre...