— The Internet provides no information on the fate of transmitted packets, and end systems cannot determine who is responsible for dropping or delaying their traffic. As a resul...
Katerina J. Argyraki, Petros Maniatis, O. Irzak, S...
entifies three levels of abstraction for resource requirements a service provider needs to manage, detailed specification of raw resources, virtualization of heterogeneous resource...
Asit Dan, Kavitha Ranganathan, Catalin Dumitrescu,...
The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...
Agreement-based resource management is becoming the foundation of grid system. Since the grid resource management encompasses a wide range of different scenarios, the decision mak...
This paper reports on work in progress to produce a unified Quality of Service (QoS) ontology This ontology must be applicable to the main scenarios currently identified such as Q...