The monitorability of service-level agreements for application-service provision

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOPS'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-14

  Skene, James ^a   Skene, Allan ^b   Crampton, Jason ^c   Emmerich, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nottingham Clinical Research Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASP; SLA

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DATA MONITORING; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLA); STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 34748896011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1216993.1216997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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