Web services on demand: WSLA-driven automated management

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 136-158

  Dan, Asit ^a   Davis, Doug ^b   Kearney, Robert ^a   Keller, Alexander ^a   King, Richard P ^a   Kuebler, Dietmar ^c   Ludwig, Heiko ^a   Polan, Mike ^d   Spreitzer, Mike ^a   Youssef, Alaa ^e  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM   (Germany)

^d IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

^e Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; FINANCE; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLA); WEB SERVICES (WS);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 11144353560     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.431.0136     Document Type: Review

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