Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are explicit statements about all expectations and obligations in the business partnership between customers and providers. They have been introduc...
Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, James Padgett, Georg ...
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
We consider a system with two service classes with heterogeneous traffic characteristics and Quality-of-Service requirements. The available bandwidth is shared between the two tra...