Heuristics: intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving
Heuristics: intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving
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Language and distributed system support for complex organizational services
COCS '91 Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems
A quality of service architecture
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A two-level investigation of information systems outsourcing
Communications of the ACM
Employment outsourcing in information systems
Communications of the ACM
ReGTime - Rent Gigaflops someTimes
TreDS '96 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Trends in Distributed Systems: CORBA and Beyond
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Flexible service provision considering specific customer resource needs
EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
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Current approaches for service mediation, such as trading, do not provide means for a long-term binding of services. They do not ensure that certain services are provided and that the desired service properties are fulfilled. Moreover, a server may withdraw a service offer at any time. For the integration of external services into an enterprise internal service market, it is necessary to guarantee the permanent availability of the services with desired properties and to sustain these properties. This requires that the technical relationship between service provider and customer has to be extended by commercial and legal ones. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Virtual Private Resources to enable long-term relationships between the customer and the provider of a service. Virtual Private Resources are services that can be bound by contract for a longer period of time. They can be considered as private ones, although the physical resources that provide the service may change or be shared with other customers. We introduce the basics of the approach and present a possible architecture for implementing Virtual Private Resources. Finally, we give an example for the application of Virtual Private Resources to implement a traffic information system.