— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) include quality of service (QoS) constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue wh...
Mike J. Boniface, Stephen C. Phillips, Alfonso S&a...
The new IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) provides an overlay architecture for IP based core networks and enables the efficient provision of an open set of potentially highly integrat...
Business applications are facing an increasing demand for being delivered as on-demand services. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a common way for specifying the exact condition...
Wolfgang Theilmann, Ulrich Winkler, Jens Happe, Il...
Abstract--Service-Oriented Architectures address the development of distributed and dynamic service-based applications. Due to the dynamics of their environments, services should b...
Andre Lage Freitas, Jean-Louis Pazat, Nikos Parlav...