Cloud computing is an emerging technological paradigm that follows pay-as-you-use model.
By this model, the consumers are charged according to the usage without regard to where …

Cost-efficient operation while satisfying performance and availability guarantees in Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) is a challenge for Cloud Computing, as these are potentially …

To support the quality of service guarantee from the service provider side, complex web
services require to be contracted through service level agreement. State of the art on web …

When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire
guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and non …

We propose an image-text alignment framework to match images with text, and take blog
article summarization as the main application. Objects in an image are first detected, from …

Various forms of agreements naturally arise in the service provider model as well as in multi-
party computing models such as business-to-business, utility and grid computing. The role of …

The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of
the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a …

Cloud computing offers a model where resources (storage, applications, etc.) are abstracted
and provided “as-aservice” in a remotely accessible manner. Although there are numerous …

The objective of this research is to study the application of Web services technology in
distributed real-time data delivery systems, as well as to determine the appropriate contexts …

To form and automatically manage partnerships within a virtual organisation, it is necessary
to have an electronic representation of the contract governing business relationships that …