Software systems built by composing existing services are more and more capturing the interest of researchers and practitioners. The envisaged long term scenario is that services, ...
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Alessi...
The present emergence of loosely-coupled, inter-enterprise collaboration, i.e., virtual organizations calls for new kind of middleware: generic, common facilities for managing cont...
-- Published work in the IT services area is generally centered on the description of management best practices or specific technological issues. There is a lack of empirical studi...
Business applications are facing an increasing demand for being delivered as on-demand services. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a common way for specifying the exact condition...
Wolfgang Theilmann, Ulrich Winkler, Jens Happe, Il...
Current network infrastructures are experiencing rapid transformation from providing mere connectivity, to a wider range of flexible network services with Quality of Service (QoS)....