The emerging cloud-computing paradigm is rapidly gaining momentum as an alternative to
traditional IT (information technology). However, contemporary cloud-computing offerings …

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

We introduce RATEWeb, a framework for establishing trust in service-oriented
environments. RATEWeb supports a cooperative model in which Web services share their …

Load balancing is a key technique for improving Internet performance. Effective use of load
balancing requires good traffic distribution schemes. We study the performance of several …

The proliferation of networked devices, systems, and applications that we depend on every
day makes managing networks more important than ever. The increasing security …

Although Web services are becoming business-critical components, they are often deployed
with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners …

Quality of service (QoS) can be a critical element for achieving the business goals of a
service provider, for the acceptance of a service by the user, or for guaranteeing service …

Quality-of-service and SLA guarantees are among the major challenges of cloud-based
services. In this paper we first present a new cloud model called SLAaaS—SLA aware …