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Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to specify the quality attributes between cloud service providers and the customers. A violation of SLAs can result in high penalties. To allow the analysis of SLA compliance before the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Frank S. de Boer , Elena Giachino , Stijn de Gouw , Reiner Hähnle , Einar Broch Johnsen , Cosimo Laneve , Ka I Pun , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring in service-oriented environments suffers from inherent trust conflicts when providers self-report metrics, creating incentives to underreport violations. We introduce a framework for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fernando Castillo , Eduardo Brito , Sebastian Werner , Pille Pullonen-Raudvere , Jonathan Heiss

Detecting faults and SLA violations in a timely manner is critical for telecom providers, in order to avoid loss in business, revenue and reputation. At the same time predicting SLA violations for user services in telecom environments is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jawwad Ahmed , Andreas Johnsson , Rerngvit Yanggratoke , John Ardelius , Christofer Flinta , Rolf Stadler

In this paper, we examine the problem of a single provider offering multiple types of service level agreements, and the implications thereof. In doing so, we propose a simple model for machine-readable service level agreements (SLAs) and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Christopher C. Lamb , Gregory L. Heileman

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

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal contract between a service provider and a consumer, representing a crucial instrument to define, manage, and maintain relationships between these two parties. The SLA's ability to define the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Witold Pedrycz

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

Training a high-performing neural decoder can be difficult when only limited data are available from a recording session. To address this challenge, we propose a Task-Conditioned Latent Alignment framework (TCLA) for cross-session neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Canyang Zhao , Bolin Peng , J. Patrick Mayo , Ce Ju , Bing Liu

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee that consumers' service quality expectation can be achieved. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Linlin Wu , Rajkumar Buyya

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being provided to the variety of end-users demands, thereby providing a better and improved management of services is crucial. Therefore, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are essential and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ayyoub Akbari-Moghanjoughi , José Roberto de Almeida Amazonas , Germán Santos-Boada , Josep Solé-Pareta

The Transformer architecture has significantly advanced deep learning, particularly in natural language processing, by effectively managing long-range dependencies. However, as the demand for understanding complex relationships grows,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Qinglin Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Chong Deng , Hai Yu , Jiaqing Liu , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang

Datacenters suffer from resource utilization inefficiencies due to the conflicting goals of service owners and platform providers. Service owners intending to maintain Service Level Objectives (SLO) for themselves typically request a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Sayak Chakraborti , Brian Coutinho , Sandhya Dwarkadas , Parth Malani , Bikash Sharma

Ensuring Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in large-scale architectures, such as Distributed Computing Continuum Systems (DCCS), is challenging due to their heterogeneous nature and varying service requirements across different devices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Alfreds Lapkovskis , Boris Sedlak , Sindri Magnússon , Schahram Dustdar , Praveen Kumar Donta

In Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models, particularly for video generation, attention latency is a major bottleneck due to the long sequence length and the quadratic complexity. We find that attention weights can be separated into two parts:…

Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) combines sparse and linear attention to accelerate diffusion models and has shown strong performance in video generation. However, (i) SLA relies on a heuristic split that assigns computations to the sparse or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jintao Zhang , Haoxu Wang , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Youhe Jiang , Ion Stoica , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu , Joseph E. Gonzalez

The quadratic computational complexity of standard attention mechanisms presents a severe scalability bottleneck for LLMs in long-context scenarios. While hybrid attention mechanisms combining Full Attention (FA) and Sparse Attention (SA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Quantong Qiu , Zhiyi Hong , Yi Yang , Haitian Wang , Kebin Liu , Qingqing Dang , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Large Language Model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) have rapidly advanced collaborative reasoning, tool use, and role-specialized coordination in complex tasks. However, reliability-critical deployment remains hindered by a…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is able to build latent representations that generalize well to unseen data. However, only a few SSL techniques exist for the online CL setting, where data arrives in small minibatches, the model must comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giacomo Cignoni , Andrea Cossu , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio Carta
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