As the number of available Web services increases there is a growing demand to realise complex business processes by combining and reusing available Web services. The reuse and co...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Comprehensive contractual description of Web Services and Web Service compositions is needed for selection of appropriate Web Services and their service and quality of service (Qo...
Abstract. The existing Web service management solutions are almost exclusively focused on optimization of technical QoS metrics (e.g., availability). However, financial (e.g., prof...
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...