Abstract Software as a Service (SaaS) is gaining momentum in recent years with more and
more successful adoptions. Though SaaS is delivered over Internet and charged on per-use …

The subject of I/O has often been neglected in the design of parallel computer systems,
although for many problems I/O rates will limit the speedup attainable. The I/O problem is …

An attractive business model for service brokers and aggregators is the creation of
composite services built from services offered by third parties. These providers generate …

In current cloud systems, services run across multiple geographically distributed clusters
and continuously generate resource usage data due to constant resource consumption. In …

The composition of services allows for achieving complex business requirements on top of
already existing functionality, potentially procured from third party providers. Facing a …

We present a framework enabling charging for composed services comprised of services
offered by multiple providers. In the framework rating engines may generate charge …

Providers of communications services aim to specify, realise and deploy services as quickly
as possible in order to gain a competitive edge in meeting evolving consumer demands …

Marketplaces for cloud services, referred to as electronic marketplaces (eMPs), have been
introduced for a number of purposes, including comparability and transparency of service …

The emergence of large-scale Internet services coupled with the evolution of computing
technologies such as distributed systems, parallel computing, utility computing, grid, and …

La tarificación de servicios es una de las tareas más importantes a realizar por los
operadores, siendo éste un proceso complejo en el que participan diversos actores; cada …