A novel mechanism for provisioning of high-level quality of service information in grid environments

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1113-1131

  Tserpes, Konstantinos ^a   Kyriazis, Dimosthenis ^a   Menychtas, Andreas ^a   Varvarigou, Theodora ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Grid computing; OGSA; Quality of service; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GRID MIDDLEWARE; SERVICE CONSUMER; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 44649175639     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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