Auctions are a widely used approach for determining the current market price for congested resources. However, using them for real systems, such as the Internet, the auction algor...
In this paper we have characterized the inter-arrival time and service time distributions for jobs at a large MPP supercomputing center. Our findings show that the distributions ...
Service-level agreements (SLA) definition and monitoring are open issues within the IT Service Management (ITSM) domain. Our main goals are to propose a model-based approach to IT ...
: Secure distributed systems rely on secure information flow between different hosts, thus placing a heavy requirement on the underlying security protocols. In this paper, we use S...
This paper presents the QoS-MO ontology. This ontology enables the specification of QoS requirements for Semantic Web Services and can easily be combined with OWL-S in order to fu...