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The Web service (WS) paradigm is an emerging approach to building Web applications, in which software designers typically build new WSs by leveraging existing, third-party WSs. Understanding performance characteristics of third party WSs is critical to the overall system performance. Although such performance evaluation can be done through testing of third party WSs, it is quite an expensive process...
In the last few years, the paradigms used to create new business applications is deeply changed. As matter of fact, the service providers turned their old approach create from scratch whatever we need into a new one: look for and integrate. In this brand new scenario, the key role is played by the interoperability: indeed it is required that each time a new service is deployed and once the interfaces...
In the context of Web services, hosting centers need to comply with the service level agreements (SLAs) stipulated with their customers while minimizing the operating costs, mainly related with the energy expenses due to servers operations. The problem can be effectively formalized using system identification and control theory: the SLAs are translated into set-points for the response time of the...
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