Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements

✍ Scribed by Ely de Oliveira, Franz-Josef Pfreundt (auth.), Philipp Wieder, Ramin Yahyapour, Wolfgang Ziegler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 contracts between service consumers and one or more service providers, in order to achieve the necessary reliability and commitment from all parties. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the means to model and manage such contracts in a unified way.

Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements, the thirteenth volume of the CoreGRID series, contains current research and up-to date solutions from research and business communities presented at the IEEE Grid 2009 Workshop on Service Level Agreements in Grids, and the Service Level Agreements in Grids Dagstuhl Seminar 2009. The contributions in this volume cover Grid environments, but also generic models for SLA management that are applicable to service-oriented systems in general, like market-economic strategies, negotiation models, or monitoring infrastructures.

Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners within the Grid community industry, and is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Monitoring Service Level Agreements in Grids with support of a Grid Benchmarking Service....Pages 1-11
Reactive Monitoring of Service Level Agreements....Pages 13-22
Lessons Learned from Implementing WS-Agreement....Pages 23-34
SLA-aware Resource Management....Pages 35-44
Distributed Trust Management for Validating SLA Choreographies....Pages 45-55
Evaluation of Service Level Agreement Approaches for Portfolio Management in the Financial Industry....Pages 57-66
Expressing Intervals in Automated Service Negotiation....Pages 67-75
GreenIT Service Level Agreements....Pages 77-88
Extending WS-Agreement with Multi-round Negotiation Capability....Pages 89-103
Enabling Open Cloud Markets Through WS-Agreement Extensions....Pages 105-117
Service Mediation and Negotiation Bootstrapping as First Achievements Towards Self-adaptable Cloud Services....Pages 119-132
SLA Negotiation for VO Formation....Pages 133-144
From Service Markets to Service Economies – An infrastructure for protocol-generic SLA negotiations....Pages 145-156
Service Level Agreements in BREIN....Pages 157-165
Negotiation and Monitoring of Service Level Agreements....Pages 167-176
Back Matter....Pages 184-184

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Processor Architectures; Information Systems and Communication Service; Data Structures