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 ...
In modern architectures based on Web Services or Cloud Computing, a very large number of user requests arrive concurrently and has to be scheduled for execution constrained by cor...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an electronic contract between a service user and a provider, and specifies the service to be provided, Quality of Service (QoS) properties that...
Omer F. Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan...
The need for service providers to offer SLAs to gain consumers confidence has become increasingly apparent. Our work focuses on providers who manage the execution of long-running d...
Daniel Spaven, Madhavi Rani, Sumit Kumar Bose, Mik...