Robust execution of service workflows using redundancy and advance reservations

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-139

  Stein, Stein ^a   Payne, Terry R ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

and assessing interorganizational trust relationships; Business process dependability; establishing; managing; managing and adaptively controlling end to end dependability properties

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS DEPENDABILITY; ESTABLISHING; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST; MANAGING; MANAGING AND ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLING END-TO-END DEPENDABILITY PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REDUNDANCY;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 81455135476     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2010.47     Document Type: Article

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