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WSC
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Partial cross training in call centers with uncertain arrivals and global service level agreements
Inbound call center operations are challenging to manage; there is considerable uncertainty in estimates of arrival rates, and the operation is often subject to strict service lev...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison, Deborah J. M...
DSOM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Uncertainty in Global Application Services with Load Sharing Policy
Abstract. With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distr...
Mark Burgess, Sven Ingebrigt Ulland
WECWIS
2006
IEEE
87views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
SLA Automated Negotiation Manager for Computing Services
Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service su...
Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry
DSOM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
AURIC: A Scalable and Highly Reusable SLA Compliance Auditing Framework
Abstract. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely on Internet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance le...
Hasan, Burkhard Stiller
ICAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
SLA Decomposition: Translating Service Level Objectives to System Level Thresholds
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
BDIM
2007
IEEE
85views Business» more  BDIM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Frameworks for Business-driven Service Level Management: A Criteria-based Comparison of ITIL and NGOSS
—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...
Thomas Schaaf
NOMS
2008
IEEE
134views Communications» more  NOMS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Manageability design for an autonomic management of semi-dynamic web service compositions
Abstract—Web service compositions (WSC), as part of a serviceoriented architecture (SOA), have to be managed to ensure compliance with guaranteed service levels. In this context,...
Christof Momm, I. P. Hallerbach, Sebastian Abeck, ...
IEEESCC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Monitoring Dependencies for SLAs: The MoDe4SLA Approach
In service oriented computing different techniques for monitoring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are available. Many of these monitoring approaches focus on bilateral agreements ...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...
ICAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1000 Islands: Integrated Capacity and Workload Management for the Next Generation Data Center
Recent advances in hardware and software virtualization offer unprecedented management capabilities for the mapping of virtual resources to physical resources. It is highly desira...
Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson, Zhikui...