The paper presents an analysis of the possibilities of defining penalty functions to be used in SLA management frameworks. As a basis for the analysis, a brief survey of metrics u...
Jacek Kosinski, Dominik Radziszowski, Krzysztof Zi...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
—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...
The support of process enactment through the use of workflow management systems has gained considerable attention within the last few years. We develop a classification framework c...
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...