A call center with both contract and non-contract customers was giving priority to the contract customers only in off-peak hours, precisely when having priority was least importan...
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract A design and pilot implementation of a system, called InterProcs, supporting electronic contracting is presented. A key concept in the design of th...
An adaptation contract describes composition constraints and adaptation requirements among several services which were not initially built to interoperate with each other. The man...
Web Service orchestrations are compositions of different Web Services to form a new service. The services called during the orchestration guarantee a given Quality of Service (QoS...
Anne Bouillard, Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste,...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...