Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wieder, Philipp. (Editor), Yahyapour, Ramin. (Editor), Ziegler, Wolfgang. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer network architectures.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information systems.; Computer Science.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).; Processor Architectures.; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Data Structures.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7320-7

As Grids and service-oriented architectures have evolved to a common infrastructure for providing and consuming services in research and commercial environments, mechanisms are needed to agree on the objectives and the quality of such service provision. There is a clear trend to use electronic contr...

Table of Contents:

• Areas benefiting from SLAs
• Languages to express SLAs
• Protocols to conclude and negotiate SLAs
• Technologies for management and observation of SLAs
• Static vs. Dynamic SLAs
• Business models & Grid economy
• Negotiation and agreement protocols and strategies
• Validation techniques for SLA parameters
• Comparison and matchmaking of SLA and policy descriptions
• Managing user expectations via SLAs
• Multi-party SLAs and SLA chaining
• SLA-based resource discovery, co-scheduling and resource reservation
• Registry Services and repositories for SLA
• SLA-based trust management including VOs
• Monitoring, provisioning, enforcement of SLAs.