Performance and dependability in service computing concepts, techniques and research directions /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Cardellini, Valeria, 1973-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Service-oriented architecture (Computer science); Web services.; Management information systems.; Implementation; Deployment technologies; Dependability and security concepts; QoS; SLA; Service-oriented computing; Real-time issues; Security and privacy; Self-adaptive service-oriented architectures; System and service dependability
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"This book focuses on performance and dependability issues associated with service computing and these two complementary aspects, which include concerns of quality of service (QoS), real-time constraints, security, reliability and other important requirements when it comes to integrating servic...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Service level agreement (SLA) in utility computing systems / Linlin Wu and Rajkumar Buyya
• 2. SLA-aware enterprise service computing / Longji Tang, Jing Dong and Yajing Zhao
• 3. Dependability modeling / Paulo R. M. Maciel ... [et al.]
• 4. Trends and research issues in SOA validation / Antonia Bertolino ... [et al.]
• 5. Service-oriented collaborative business processes / Lai Xu ... [et al.]
• 6. Performance management of composite applications in service oriented architectures / Vinod K. Dubey and Daniel A. Menascé
• 7. High-quality business processes based on multi-dimensional QoS / Qianhui Liang and Michael Parkin
• 8. A game theoretic solution for the optimal selection of services / Salah Merad, Rogério de Lemos and Tom Anderson
• 9. A tool chain for constructing QoS-aware Web services / Bernhard Hollunder, Ahmed Al-Moayed and Alexander Wahl
• 10. Performance, availability and cost of self-adaptive Internet services / Jean Arnaud and Sara Bouchenak
• 11. Performability evaluation of Web-based services / Magnos Martinello, Mohamed Kaâniche and Karama Kanoun
• 12. Measuring and dealing with the uncertainty of SOA solutions / Yuhui Chen ... [et al.]
• 13. Achieving dependable composite services through two-level redundancy / Hailong Sun ... [et al.]
• 14. Building Web services with time requirements / Nuno Laranjeiro, Marco Vieira and Henrique Madeira
• 15. Dependability and security on wireless self-organized networks: properties, requirements, approaches and future directions / Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos and Guy Pujolle
• 16. Engineering secure Web services / Douglas Rodrigues ... [et al.]
• 17. Approaches to functional, structural and security SOA testing / Cesare Bartolini
• 18. Detecting vulnerabilities in Web services: can developers rely on existing tools? / Nuno Antunes and Marco Vieira.