Most web services need to be contracted through service level agreements that typically specify a certain quality of service (QoS) in return for a certain price. We propose a new f...
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...
We present a brokering service for the adaptive management of composite services. The goal of this broker is to dynamically adapt at runtime the composite service configuration, ...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Web and grid services are quickly maturing as a technology that allows for the integration of applications belonging to different administrative domains, enabling much faster and ...
Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Philippe Sauvé...