SLA@SOI

The financial sector depends heavily on process and data intensive computations to deliver competitive advantage. Financial applications are particularly suited to grid-based experimentation and research. A Financial Live Trading System is used an exemplar in this article. The emerging growth of worldwide trading and the reliance on automated processing has increased the complexity and volatility [...]

Originally, (Web) services were deployed and used with almost no actual control by the different parties. The simplistic assumption that their behavior was correct and everyone had to be happy with the functionality provided was unrealistic. The actual exploitation of services, imposed us to start conceiving different methods and tools to manage the complete life-cycle of deployed and running services with special emphasis on the actual run-time behavior.