A framework for QoS-based Web service contracting

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Comuzzi, Marco ^a   Pernici, Barbara ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Matchmaking; Negotiation; QoS; Service selection; SLA; Web service

Indexed keywords

MATCHMAKING; NEGOTIATION; QOS; SERVICE SELECTION; SLA;

FORESTRY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; VIRTUAL CORPORATION; WEB SERVICES;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 68549140050     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1541822.1541825     Document Type: Article

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