An adaptive and intelligent SLA negotiation system for web services

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-43

  Zulkernine, Farhana H ^a   Martin, Patrick ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptive negotiation; business services relationship; intelligent agents; negotiation; Quality of services; service level agreement; services systems; web services

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEGOTIATION; BUSINESS SERVICE; NEGOTIATION; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT; SERVICES SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 79952380588     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2010.44     Document Type: Article

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