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Within cloud-based internet of things (IoT) applications, typically cloud providers employ Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure the quality of their provisioned services. Similar to any other contractual method, an SLA is not immune to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 A. Alzubaidi , K. Mitra , P. Patel , E. Solaiman

We consider government service allocation -- how the government allocates resources (e.g., maintenance of public infrastructure) over time. It is important to make these decisions efficiently and equitably -- though these desiderata may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhi Liu , Nikhil Garg

Future e-business models will rely on electronic contracts which are agreed dynamically and adaptively by web services. Thus, the automatic negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between consumers and providers is key for enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Werner Mach , Benedikt Pittl , Erich Schikuta

IT services provisioning is usually underpinned by service level agreements (SLAs), aimed at guaranteeing services quality. However, there is a gap between the customer perspective (business oriented) and that of the service provider…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Anacleto Correia , Fernando Brito e Abreu , Vasco Amaral

Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are component-based architectures, characterized by reusability, modularization and composition, usually offered by HTTP (web services) and often equipped with a Quality of Services (QoS) measure. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Stefano Bistarelli , Paola Campli

Service level agreement (SLA) is an essential part of cloud systems to ensure maximum availability of services for customers. With a violation of SLA, the provider has to pay penalties. In this paper, we explore two machine learning models:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Reyhane Askari Hemmat , Abdelhakim Hafid

The motivation behind this paper is to dissecting the secure network for Business to Business (B2B) application by Implementing Access Control List (ACL) and Service Level Agreement (SLA). This data provides the nature of attacks reported…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Abdul Ahad Abro , Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Abdul Baqi Khan Khakwani

Cloud computing has been consolidated as a support for the vast majority of current and emerging technologies. However, there are some barriers that prevent the exploitation of the full potential of this technology. First, the major cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Víctor Rampérez , Javier Soriano , David Lizcano , Shadi Aljawarneh , Juan A. Lara

This paper outlines key design principles of Scilla---an intermediate-level language for verified smart contracts. Scilla provides a clean separation between the communication aspect of smart contracts on a blockchain, allowing for the rich…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Ilya Sergey , Amrit Kumar , Aquinas Hobor

The assurance of quality of service properties is an important aspect of service-oriented software engineering. Notations for so-called service level agreements (SLAs), such as the Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) language, provide a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Christian Krause , Holger Giese

User experience is a critical factor Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems must consider, where service level objectives (SLOs) considering the experience of individual requests and system level metrics (SLMs) considering the overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhibin Wang , Shipeng Li , Yuhang Zhou , Xue Li , Zhonghui Zhang , Nguyen Cam-Tu , Rong Gu , Chen Tian , Guihai Chen , Sheng Zhong

The disruptive power of blockchain technologies represents a great opportunity to re-imagine standard practices of telecommunication networks and to identify critical areas that can benefit from brand new approaches. As a starting point for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Emanuele Di Pascale , Jasmina McMenamy , Irene Macaluso , Linda Doyle

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is critical for delivering reliable, secure, and efficient software products. The Software Quality Assurance Process aims to provide assurance that work products and processes comply with predefined…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Avinash Patil

Service level agreements (SLAs) in data center colocation contracts define precise thresholds for power, temperature, and humidity, with tiered violation penalties expressed as credits against monthly recurring charges. Traditional reactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Omanshu Thapliyal

Background: Cloud Computing is increasingly booming in industry with many competing providers and services. Accordingly, evaluation of commercial Cloud services is necessary. However, the existing evaluation studies are relatively chaotic.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Zheng Li , He Zhang , Liam O'Brien , Rainbow Cai , Shayne Flint

Critical networked services enable significant revenue for network operators and, in turn, are regulated by Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In order to ensure SLAs are being met, service levels need to be monitored. One technique for this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jéferson C. Nobre , Lisandro Z. Granville , Alberto G. Prieto , Alexander Clemm

Network slicing is considered a key enabler to 5th Generation (5G) communication networks. Mobile network operators may deploy network slices -- complete logical networks customized for specific services expecting a certain Quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Sebastian Gallenmüller , Johannes Naab , Iris Adam , Georg Carle

While mobile IPTV services are supported through the mobile WiMAX networks, there must need some guaranteed bandwidth for the IPTV services especially if IPTV and non-IPTV services are simultaneously supported by the mobile WiMAX networks.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Bui Minh Trung , Yeong Min Jang , Young-Il Kim , Won Ryu

The Service Level Agreement~(SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites by grid schedulers such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rajiv Ranjan , Aaron Harwood , Rajkumar Buyya

For the layer 'System Level Functionality' of the Phyisical Internet, it is needed to estimate end-to-end performance characteristics of transportations that visit multiple logistic domains. This paper proposes an approach based on a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Frank Phillipson