Lifetime service level agreement management with autonomous agents for services provision

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2591-2605

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

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent technology; Service level agreement management; Service oriented computing; web services

Indexed keywords

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORKS; INTEGRATING AGENTS; SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE PROVISIONS; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING; SLA MANAGEMENTS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENTS; WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGIES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MANAGEMENT; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 67349223264     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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