Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of
service provisioning. WS-Agreement is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both …

Abstract Service level agreements (SLAs) provide a means to define specific Quality of
Service (QoS) guarantees between providers and consumers of services. Negotiation and …

Abstract Service Level Agreements require a monitoring system that checks that no party
violates the agreement. Current monitoring techniques either have a high performance …

The number and complexity of cyber-attacks has been increasing steadily in recent years.
The major players in today's cyber conflicts are well organized and heavily funded teams …

Grids, like other heterogeneous systems, have reached the level of maturity where they are
addressing the Quality of Service (QoS) provision aspect as a fundamental part of their …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for enhancing security policy
management in the Grid. Design/methodology/approach–The Grid security policy …

Abstract Background Advances in Internet technologies have allowed life science
researchers to reach beyond the lab-centric research paradigm to create distributed …

The Grid is a major step towards achieving coordinated resource sharing and problem
solving within and among virtual organizations. Grid's decentralized nature along with the …

During the procedure of resource discovery in Grid, a requester (consumer) may be offered
several resources (providers) which identities have been verified to submit his task. How to …

□“Forget anything you know about current defensive technologies and state-of-the-art
security solutions. We have them all, and we know that are not effective against our threat …