Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs offered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
A key issue in web services is matching that involves comparing user requests with advertised services and finding the best available ones. In semantic web services, an ontology is...
Arif Bramantoro, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Maria Indra...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...
In this paper we introduce a programming language for Web document processing called WebL. WebL is a high level, object-oriented scripting language that incorporates two novel fea...