TY - GEN
T1 - Negotiation of service level agreements: An architecture and a search-based approach
AU - Nitto, Elisabetta Di
AU - Penta, Massimiliano Di
AU - Gambi, Alessio
AU - Ripa, Gianluca
AU - Villani, Maria Luisa
N1 - cited By 62; Conference of 5th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2007 ; Conference Date: 17 September 2007 Through 20 September 2007; Conference Code:71224
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Software systems built by composing existing services are more and more capturing the interest of researchers and practitioners. The envisaged long term scenario is that services, offered by some competing providers, are chosen by some consumers and used for their own purpose, possibly, in conjunction with other services. In the case the consumer is not anymore satisfied by the performance of some service, he can try to replace it with some other service. This implies the creation of a global market of services and poses new requirements concerning validation of exploited services, security of transactions engaged with services, trustworthiness, creation and negotiation of Service Level Agreements with these services. In this paper we focus on the last aspect and present our approach for negotiation of Service Level Agreements. Our architecture supports the actuation of various negotiation processes and offers a search-based algorithm to assist the negotiating parts in the achievement of an agreement. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
AB - Software systems built by composing existing services are more and more capturing the interest of researchers and practitioners. The envisaged long term scenario is that services, offered by some competing providers, are chosen by some consumers and used for their own purpose, possibly, in conjunction with other services. In the case the consumer is not anymore satisfied by the performance of some service, he can try to replace it with some other service. This implies the creation of a global market of services and poses new requirements concerning validation of exploited services, security of transactions engaged with services, trustworthiness, creation and negotiation of Service Level Agreements with these services. In this paper we focus on the last aspect and present our approach for negotiation of Service Level Agreements. Our architecture supports the actuation of various negotiation processes and offers a search-based algorithm to assist the negotiating parts in the achievement of an agreement. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
KW - Algorithms
KW - Optimization
KW - Quality of service
KW - Search engines
KW - Software architecture
KW - Optimization heuristics
KW - Service level agreements
KW - Software systems
KW - Information services
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74974-5_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74974-5_24
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 4749 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 295
EP - 306
BT - Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007, Fifth International Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 17-20, 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer
ER -