A policy-based middleware for web services SLA negotiation

2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1043-1050

  Zulkernine, Farhana ^a   Martin, Patrick ^a   Craddock, Chris ^b   Wilson, Kirk ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OOCTO   (United States)

^c CA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS PROCESS; COMPOSITE WEB SERVICES; LOW LEVEL; MIDDLEWARE FRAMEWORKS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; POLICY SPECIFICATION; POLICY-BASED MIDDLEWARE; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLEWARE; OCEAN CURRENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPECIFICATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 70449475511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2009.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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