In this paper we discuss the design and experimental evaluation of a middleware
architecture that enables Service Level Agreement (SLA)-driven dynamic configuration …

Cloud computing [23] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud
computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate …

Abstract Service Clouds are a key emerging feature of the Future Internet which will provide
a platform to execute virtualized services. To effectively operate a service cloud there needs …

Cloud Computing promises an easy way to use and access to a large pool of virtualized
resources (such as hardware, development platforms and/or services) that can be …

As a new computing paradigm, Cloud computing has been advocated by IT industry and
academia. It can provide lots of services, however, how to manage these services and …

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular in distributed computing environment.
Data storage and processing using cloud environments is becoming a trend worldwide …

One of the biggest advantages of cloud infrastructures is the elasticity. Cloud services are
monitored and based on the resource utilization and performance load, they get scaled up …

WS-Agreement is a language and protocol designed for creating service-level agreements
(SLAs) based on initial offers, and for monitoring those offers at runtime. The definition of WS …

Abstract Service level agreements (SLAs) are facilitators for widening the commercial uptake
of Grid technology. They provide explicit statements of expectation and obligation between …

Multi-cluster federation is envisioned to be the next-generation cloud infrastructure, where it
will play a vital part in the realization of concepts such as edge and fog computing …