An agent-based framework for service level agreement management

Proceedings of the 2007 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 412-417

  He, Qiang ^a,c   Yan, Jun ^b   Kowalczyk, Ryszard ^a   Jin, Hai ^c   Yang, Yun ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agents; Service level agreement; Web services

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; REAL-WORLD; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT MANAGEMENT; SERVICE PROVISIONING; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SLA MANAGEMENT; WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENT; WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGIES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 47649103369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSCWD.2007.4281471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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