Abstract. A method is proposed whereby values for Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of an SLA can be chosen to reduce the sum IT infrastructure cost plus business financial loss. Bu...
Web services provide abstractions for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels ...
We describe a methodology for assembling composite services based on three basic processes which are independent of the concrete implementation: Abstraction Process, Service Compos...
In the context of knowledge-intensive work, making the relevant knowledge available to the people needing it for their work is a key issue. One approach is to capture such knowled...
The large-granularity Web services are a new form of Web services. In contrast to the traditional Web services, they often have more interfaces, encapsulate more complex business ...