Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negoti...
Farhana H. Zulkernine, Patrick Martin, Chris Cradd...
We introduce the Symphony framework, a software ion layer that can sit on top of grid systems. Symphony provides a unified API for grid application developers and offers a graphic...
We present a formalism for provenance in distributed systems based on the -calculus. Its main feature is that all data products are annotated with metadata representing their prov...
Issam Souilah, Adrian Francalanza, Vladimiro Sasso...
The alignment of the software architecture and the functional requirements of a system is a demanding task because of the difficulty in tracing design elements to requirements. Th...
A variety of computation models have been developed using graphs and graph transformations. These include models for sequential, distributed, parallel or mobile computation. A grap...