Three Decision-making Mechanisms to facilitate Negotiation of Service Level Agreements for Web Service Compositions

Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings

Volumn 6461, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brzostowski, Jakub ^a   Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal ^a   Kowalczyk, Ryszard ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

composite web services; end to end QoS; negotiation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

COMPLEX PROCESSES; COMPOSITE WEB SERVICES; DECISION-MAKING MECHANISMS; END-TO-END QOS; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; QOS REQUIREMENTS; SERVICELEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA); USER'S PREFERENCES; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84861182905     PISSN: 18624405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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