Inbound call center operations are challenging to manage; there is considerable uncertainty in estimates of arrival rates, and the operation is often subject to strict service lev...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison, Deborah J. M...
Abstract. With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distr...
Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service su...
Abstract. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely on Internet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance le...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
Abstract—Web service compositions (WSC), as part of a serviceoriented architecture (SOA), have to be managed to ensure compliance with guaranteed service levels. In this context,...
Christof Momm, I. P. Hallerbach, Sebastian Abeck, ...
In service oriented computing different techniques for monitoring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are available. Many of these monitoring approaches focus on bilateral agreements ...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...
Recent advances in hardware and software virtualization offer unprecedented management capabilities for the mapping of virtual resources to physical resources. It is highly desira...
Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson, Zhikui...