Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements [electronic resource] / edited by Philipp Wieder, Ramin Yahyapour, Wolfgang Ziegler.

Monitoring Service Level Agreements in Grids with support of a Grid Benchmarking Service -- Reactive Monitoring of Service Level Agreements -- Lessons Learned from Implementing WS-Agreement -- SLA-aware Resource Management -- Distributed Trust Management for Validating SLA Choreographies -- Evaluation of Service Level Agreement Approaches for Portfolio Management in the Financial Industry -- Expressing Intervals in Automated Service Negotiation -- GreenIT Service Level Agreements -- Extending WS-Agreement with Multi-round Negotiation Capability -- Enabling Open Cloud Markets Through WS-Agreement Extensions -- Service Mediation and Negotiation Bootstrapping as First Achievements Towards Self-adaptable Cloud Services -- SLA Negotiation for VO Formation -- From Service Markets to Service Economies – An infrastructure for protocol-generic SLA negotiations -- Service Level Agreements in BREIN -- Negotiation and Monitoring of Service Level Agreements.

As Grids and service-oriented architectures have evolved to a common infrastructure for providing and consuming services in research and commercial environments, mechanisms are needed to agree on the objectives and the quality of such service provision. There is a clear trend to use electronic contracts between service consumers and one or more service providers, in order to achieve the necessary reliability and commitment from all parties. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the means to model and manage such contracts in a unified way. Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements, the thirteenth volume of the CoreGRID series, contains current research and up-to date solutions from research and business communities presented at the IEEE Grid 2009 Workshop on Service Level Agreements in Grids, and the Service Level Agreements in Grids Dagstuhl Seminar 2009. The contributions in this volume cover Grid environments, but also generic models for SLA management that are applicable to service-oriented systems in general, like market-economic strategies, negotiation models, or monitoring infrastructures. Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners within the Grid community industry, and is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.