Abstract. We consider an approach to service selection wherein service consumers choose services with desired nonfunctional properties to maximize their utility. A consumer’s uti...
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, ...
Network impairments are unpredictable and highly destructive to the perceptual quality of media content in the IPTV content distribution networks. As a result the existing network...
Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been playing an important role as a middleware for interoperable transactions such as Business-to-Business and Enterprise A...
Grid computing provides a robust paradigm to aggregate disparate resources in a secure and controlled environment. Grid architectures require an underpinning Quality of Service (Qo...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewsk...