Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
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...
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...
The World Wide Web is playing a major role in reducing business costs and in providing convenience to users. Digital Libraries capitalize on this technology to distribute document...