Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
The notion of application – a single, bounded piece of functionality presented to users – goes almost unquestioned. However in the context of highly adaptive and ambient system...
A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
There are an increasing number of initiatives for the migration of agents research towards new Internet technologies such as the semantic web, Grid, and web services. On the one h...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Chris van Aart, Valentina A....
Abstract. We propose a framework for managing resources via convergent operators. Operators represent their need for a resource to a designated resource closure operator that manag...