Due to the autonomous nature of ISPs, the service level agreement (SLA) offering is currently confined to within a single provider network. In this work, we examine some methods o...
—This paper discusses multi-issue negotiation between agents such as providers and consumers in a group decision making environment. The outcome of such encounters depends on two...
Fahmida Abedin, Kuo-Ming Chao, Nick Godwin, Hisbel...
Web and grid services are quickly maturing as a technology that allows for the integration of applications belonging to different administrative domains, enabling much faster and ...
Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Philippe Sauvé...
This paper describes a Rule Based Service Level Agreement language called RBSLA which is based on RuleML. With this language SLAs can be implemented in a machine readable syntax w...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...