Grid computing promises to become the future computing paradigm for enterprise application after having shown to be a quite effective computing paradigm for resource-intensive sci...
Web services have greatly leveraged the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) communication and promise a lot more through dynamic service composition. In order to compose Web servi...
Analysis of network and application pegormance is traditionally based on mathematical models derived from first principles. Such models are usually complex, diflcult to use, and d...
Service-level agreements (SLAs) establish a contract between service providers and clients concerning Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Without proper penalties, service provid...