Abstract Automated Service Level Agreements (SLAs) have been proposed for cloud
services as contracts used to record the rights and obligations of service providers and their …

Cloud computing environment consists of various interactive entities like cloud service
providers, cloud service brokers, cloud customers and end-users with different objectives …

In many cases, demands of Intelligent Manufacturing are generated locally and served
locally, not necessarily dependent on the cloud. We believe in the distributed intelligent …

Sophisticated workflows, where multiple parties cooperate towards the achievement of a
shared goal are today common. In a market-oriented setup, it is key that effective …

We explore in this paper the application of bioinspired approaches to the association rules
mining (ARM) problem for the purpose of accelerating the process of extracting the …

The service level agreement (SLA) is a mutual contract between the service provider and
consumer which determines the agreed service level objective (SLO). The common SLA is a …

Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) deliver cloud services to cloud customers on a pay-per-
use model. The quality of the provided services are defined using Service Level Agreements …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new computing paradigm in which uniquely addressable
objects such as Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags, sensors, actuators, and mobile …

Cloud computing is a very attractive option for service users and service providers for their
businesses because of the benefits it provides. A major concern among service users …

Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) provide cloud services to the cloud customers in the pay-
per-use model and use the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to define the quality of the …