Due to the increasing use of service level agreements for the provisioning of IT services, providers have to ensure that the guarantees for the quality of their offered services, ...
— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). Such a service has the potential to simplif...
In this paper, we propose FECT, a new modelling framework for describing and composing heterogenous Web services to satisfy emergent requirements. In FECT, a three-dimension descri...
Development of sound approaches and software tools for specification, assembly, and deployment of composite Web services from independently developed components promises to enhan...
Jyotishman Pathak, Samik Basu, Robyn R. Lutz, Vasa...
— Modern networks provide a QoS (quality of service) model to go beyond best-effort services, but current QoS models are oriented towards low-level network parameters (e.g., band...