Towards increased expressiveness in service level agreements

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1975-1990

  Yarmolenko, Viktor ^a   Sakellariou, Rizos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job scheduling; Service level agreement; WS agreement

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

JOB MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; JOB SCHEDULING; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLA);

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548760736     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1140     Document Type: Article

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