A policy-based framework for automated service level agreement negotiation

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 9th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 682-689

  Xiao, Zan ^a   Cao, Donggang ^a   You, Chao ^a   Mei, Hong ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Negotiation; Policy; SLA

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SERVICES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); WEBSITES;

AUTOMATED SERVICES; DYNAMIC SERVICES; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION AGENTS; POLICY-BASED FRAMEWORK; SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS; SERVICE-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT; SERVICELEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA); TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; WEBS SERVICES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 80053162519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2011.116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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