A systematic review of service level management in the cloud

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Faniyi, Funmilade ^a   Bahsoon, Rami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Cloud computing; QoS; Self adaptive; Self awareness; SLA; Software architecture; Survey

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; LIFE CYCLE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AUTONOMICS; CLOUD-COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; RESOURCES ALLOCATION; SELF AWARENESS; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT; SERVICELEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84954339118     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2843890     Document Type: Article

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