SLA@SOI

Publications

The SLA@SOI consortium is keen to share its results as widely as possible, and is actively publishing both general and focused technical content through a wide variety of channels. Please see below for a selection of our publications to date. The publications are arranged by:

• Introductory Documentation
• Key Technical Documentation
• Books and Book Chapters
• Conference Publications
• Technical Papers, Reports, Seminar Presentations and Media Contributions
• Dependable Cloud Presentations from SLA@SOI – April 28th 2011
• Information Day Presentations – September 28th 2010

Direct links to the content are provided where possible. Some publications have a corresponding DOI number to facilitate location of the content elsewhere.

Formal results of the project are made available via Deliverables. Our public Deliverables can be downloaded from here.

Introductory Documentation

• SLA@SOI – Overview (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Factsheet (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Glossary (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case Flyer – ERP Hosting (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case Flyer – Enterprise IT (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case Flyer – Service Aggregation (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case Flyer – eGovernment (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Final Report (PDF)

Key Technical Documentation

• SLA@SOI Reference Architecture
• SLA@SOI Adoption Guide
• SLA@SOI Sourceforge Wiki
• SLA@SOI Sourceforge Maven Generated website – includes JavaDocs

Books and Book Chapters

2011

• Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing
  Wieder, P.; Butler, J.M.; Theilmann, W.; Yahyapour, R. (Eds.)
  Comprehensive book summarising the work of the SLA@SOI project.
  To be published by Springer November 28 2011. More information here.
• Performance Modeling for Quality of Service Prediction in Service-Oriented Systems
  Christoph Rathfelder, Benjamin Klatt, Franz Brosch, Samuel Kounev
  Handbook of Research on Non-Functional Properties for Service-Oriented Systems: Future Directions – Book chapter

• Open Cloud Computing Interface in Data Management-Related Setups
  Andrew Edmonds, Thijs Metsch, and Alexander Papaspyrou
  Grid and Cloud Database Management – Book Chapter
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20045-8_2

• SLAs Empowering Services in the Future Internet
  Joe Butler, Juan Lambea, Michael Nolan, Wolfgang Theilmann, Francesco Torelli, Ramin Yahyapour, Annamaria Chiasera, Marco Pistore
  The Future Internet Book, 2011 – Book Chapter
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20898-0_23

2010

• A Reference Architecture for Multi-Level SLA Management
  Wolfgang Theilmann, Jens Happe, Costas Kotsokalis, Andy Edmonds, Keven Kearney and Juan Lambea
  JIE (Journal of Internet Engineering), Vol 4, Nb 1
  Paper (PDF)

• Parametric Performance Completions for Model-Driven Performance Prediction
  Jens Happe, Steffen Becker, Christoph Rathfelder, Holger Friedrich, and Ralf H. Reussner
  Performance Evaluation Journal
  Volume 67, Issue 8, August 2010, pp. 694-716
  DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2009.07.006

• Service Level Agreements in Grids,
  Philipp Wieder, Ramin Yahyapour
  Book chapter in Encyclopedia of Software Engineering I, Auerbach Publications, 1 edition, November 24, 2010. ISBN: 978-1420059779

2009

• Multi-level SLAs for Harmonized Management in the Future Internet
  Wolfgang Theilmann, Luciano Baresi
  Towards the Future Internet – A European Research Perspective
  Book, Book Chapter
  DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-007-0-193

Conference Publications

2011

• Multi-layered Monitoring and Adaptation
  Sam Guinea, Gabor Kecskemeti, Annapaola Marconi, Branimir Wetzstein
  ICSOC 2011

• SLA Translations with a model driven business impact analysis framework
  Ulrich Winkler, Wasif Gilani
  ServiceWave 2011

• SLA-enabled Enterprise IT
  Michael Nolan, Andy Edmonds, John Kennedy, Joe Butler, Jessica McCarthy, Miha Stopar, Primoz Hadalin, Damjan Murn
  ServiceWave 2011

• Predicting Software Service Availability: Towards a Runtime Monitoring Approach
  Davide Lorenzoli, George Spanoudakis
  ICWS 2011

• Run-Time Prediction Model of Software Service Availability
  Davide Lorenzoli, George Spanoudakis
  SERP 2011

• Capacity Planning for Event-based Systems using Automated Performance Predictions
  Christoph Rathfelder, Samuel Kounev, David Evans
  ASE 2011

• SLA-Based Planning for Multi-Domain Infrastructure as a Service
  Kuan Lu, Thomas Roeblitz, Peter Chronz, Costas Kotsokalis
  CLOSER 2011

• Palladio Workbench: A Quality-Prediction Tool for Component-Based Architectures
  Christoph Rathfelder, Benjamin Klatt, Samuel Kounev
  WICSA 2011

• Reliability Prediction for Fault-Tolerant Software Architectures
  Franz Brosch, Barbora Buhnova, Heiko Koziolek, Ralf Reussner
  QoSA 2011
  Proceedings
  DOI: 10.1145/2000259.2000274

• Integration of event-based communication in the palladio software quality prediction framework
  Benjamin Klatt, Christoph Rathfelder, Samuel Kounev
  QoSA 2011
  Proceedings
  DOI: 10.1145/2000259.2000268

• SMaRT: A Workbench for Reporting the Monitorability of Services from SLAs
  Howard Foster and George Spanoudakis
  PESOS 2011
  DOI: 10.1145/1985394.1985400

• SLA* : An Abstract Syntax for Service Level Agreements
  Keven T. Kearney, Francesco Torelli, Constantinos Kotsokalis
  SLAs in Grids Workshop, IEEE Grids 2011
  Presentation (PDF)
  DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2010.5697973

• Advanced service monitoring configurations with SLA decomposition and selection
  Howard Foster and George Spanoudakis
  SAC 2011
  DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982519

• Palladio Workbench: A Quality-Prediction Tool for Component-Based Architectures
  Christoph Rathfelder, Benjamin Klatt, Samuel Kounev
  WICSA 2011
  DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2011.55
  Demo video

2010

• Integrated tool support for iterative SOA evolution
  Thomas Schster, Christoph Rathfelder, Nelly Schuster, Jens Nimis
  SOAME2010
  Paper (PDF)

• SLA-driven planning and optimization of enterprise applications
  Hui Li, Giuliano Casale, Tariq Ellahi
  WOSP/SIPEW 2010
  DOI: 10.1145/1712605.1712625

• EVEREST+: Runtime SLA Violations Prediction
  Davide Lorenzoli, George Spanoudakis
  MW4SOC 2010
  DOI: 10.1145/1890912.1890915

• Integrating WS-Agreement with a framework for service-oriented infrastructures
  Peter Chronz, Philipp Wieder
  GRIDS 2010
  DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2010.5697977

• Predictive Modelling of Peer-to-Peer Event-driven Communication in Component-based Systems
  Christoph Rathfelder, David Evans, Samuel Kounev
  EPEW 2010
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15784-4_15

• State dependence in performance evaluation of component-based software systems
  Lucia Kapova, Barbora Zimmerova, Anne Martens, Jens Happe, and Ralf H. Reussner
  WOSP/SIPEW 2010
  DOI: 10.1145/1712605.1712613

• A Prediction Model for Software Performance in Symmetric Multiprocessing Environments
  Jens Happe, Henning Groenda, Michael Hauck, and Ralf H. Reussner
  QEST 2010
  DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2010.15

• Automatic Derivation of Performance Prediction Models for Load-balancing Properties Based on Goal-oriented Measurements
  Michael Hauck, Jens Happe, and Ralf H. Reussner
  MASCOTS 2010
  DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2010.44

• The Performance Cockpit Approach: A Framework For Systematic Performance Evaluations
  Michael Hauck, Jens Happe, and Ralf H. Reussner
  SEAA 2010
  DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2010.24

• An SLA Management Framework for Telecommunication Services
  Alfonso Castro, Juan Lambea, Beatriz Fuentes, Sergio García
  TELECOM I+D 2010

• A Model-Driven Framework for Process-centric Business Continuity Management
  Ulrich Winkler, Mathias Fritzsche, Wasif Gilani, Alan Marshall
  QUATIC 2010
  DOI: 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.46

• Managing on-demand business applications with hierarchical service level agreements
  Wolfgang Theilmann, Ulrich Winkler, Jens Happe, and Ildefons Magrans de Abril
  FIS 2010
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15877-3

• SLA BUSINESS TERMS Model for a Telecom Operator Business View of SLAt
  Carlos Bueno Royo, JuanLambea Rueda, Óscar L. Dueñas Rugnon, Beatriz Fuentes, Alfonso Castro
  ICE-B 2010
  Paper

• Towards middleware-aware integration of event-based communication into the Palladio component model
  Christoph Rathfelder, Benjamin Klatt, Samuel Kounev, David Evans
  DEBS 2010
  DOI: 10.1145/1827418.1827437

• Statistical Inference of Software Performance Models for Parametric Performance Completions
  Jens Happe, Dennis Westermann, Kai Sachs, and Lucia Kapova
  QoSA 2010
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6093/2010, pp 20-35
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13821-8_4

• Parameterized Reliability Prediction for Component-based Software Architectures
  Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Bara Buhnova, Ralf Reussner
  QoSA 2010
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13821-8_5

• Domain-specific templates for refinement transformations
  Lucia Kapova, Thomas Goldschmidt, Jens Happe, Ralf Reussner
  ECMFA 2010
  DOI: 10.1145/1866272.1866282

• SAMI: The SLA Management Instance
  Costas Kotsokalis, Ramin Yahyapour, Miguel Angel Rojas Gonzalez
  ICIW 2010
  Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, pp. 303-308
  DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2010.51

• Dynamic set-up of monitoring infrastructures for service based systems
  Marco Comuzzi, George Spanoudakis
  ACM SAC 2010
  Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 2414-2421
  DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774591

• Towards performance prediction of large enterprise applications based on systematic measurements
  Dennis Westermann, Jens Happe
  WCOP 2010
  Paper (PDF)
  

2009

• Management Challenges of Automated Service Level Agreements
  Costas Kotsokalis, Philipp Wieder
  INGRID 2009
  Paper

• A Framework for Multi-level SLA Management
  Marco Comuzzi, Wolfgang Theilmann, Gabriele Zacco, Christoph Rathfelder, Constantinos Kotsokalis, and Ulrich Winkler
  NFPSLAM 2009
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6275/2010, pp. 187-196
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16132-2_18

• Translation of Service Level Agreements: A Generic Problem Definition
  Costas Kotsokalis, Ulrich Winkler
  NFPSLAM 2009
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6275/2010, pp. 248-257
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16132-2_24

• Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Policies in Symmetric Multiprocessing Environments
  Jens Happe, Henning Groenda, and Ralf H. Reussner
  MASCOTS 2009

• SLA-aware Resource Management
  Yih Leong Sun, Andy Edmonds, John Kennedy, Victor Bayon, Primoz Hadalin
  CoreGrid 2009
  Presentation (PDF)

• Modeling Service Level Agreements with Binary Decision Diagrams
  Costas Kotsokalis, Ramin Yahyapour, Miguel Angel Rojas Gonzalez
  ICSOC / ServiceWave 2009
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, Volume 5900/2009, pp. 190-204
  Presentation (PDF)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10383-4_13

• A Model-Driven Approach for Monitoring Business Performance in Web Service Compositions
  Christof Momm, Michael Gebhart, Sebastian Abeck
  ICIW 2009
  DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2009.57

• Modeling Event-Driven Service-Oriented Systems using the Palladio Component Model
  Christoph Rathfelder, Samuel Kounev
  QUASOSS 2009
  DOI: 10.1145/1596473.1596482

• Black-Box Performance Models: Prediction based on Observation
  Jens Happe, Hui Li, and Wolfgang Theilmann
  QUASOSS 2009
  DOI: 10.1145/1596473.1596479

• Model-based Performance Prediction for Event-driven Systems
  Christoph Rathfelder, Samuel Kounev
  DEBS 2009
  DOI: 10.1145/1619258.1619300

• Establishing and Monitoring SLAs in Complex Service-Based Systems
  Marco Comuzzi, George Spanoudakis, Costas Kotsokalis, Ramin Yahyapour
  ICWS 2009
  Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pp. 783-790
  DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2009.47

• Web Service Trust: Towards a Dynamic Assessment Framework
  George Spanoudakis, Stephane LoPresti
  ARES 2009
  Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2009, pp. 33-40
  DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2009.149

• Parameter Dependencies for Component Reliability Specifications
  Heiko Koziolek, Franz Brosch
  ETAPS 2009
  DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.09.026

• Describing and Verifying Monitoring Capabilities for SLA-Driven Service Based Systems
  Marco Comuzzi, George Spanoudakis
  CAiSE 2009
  Paper (PDF)

• A Framework for Hierarchical and Recursive Monitoring of Service Based Systems
  Marco Comuzzi, George Spanoudakis
  ICIW 2009
  DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-007-0-193

2008

• A Model-Driven Approach for Monitoring Business Performance in Web Service Compositions
  Christof Momm, Thomas Detsch, Sebastan AbeckEDOC 2008

• Multi-level SLA Management for Service-Oriented Infrastructures
  Wolfgang Theilmann, Ramin Yahyapour, Joe Butler
  Servicewave 2008
  Presentation (PDF)

• Quality Considerations in SAP Architectures
  Wolfgang Theilmann
  Industrial Experience Report Track, CompArch 2008
  Presentation (PDF)

Technical Papers, Reports, Seminar Presentations and Media Contributions

• Guaranteed Services can grow the Cloud
  Wolfgang Theilmann
  Cordis Technology Marketplace – Online Article

• SLA@SOI: SLAs empowering a Dependable Service Economy
  Wolfgang Theilmann, Ramin Yahyapour
  ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) News 83 – Magazine Article

• SLA@SOI: New service opportunities for Consumers and Providers
  Wolfgang Theilmann, John Kennedy
  Science, Technology and Innovation Projects – Magazine Article

• The Future of SLA Management
  SLA@SOI Consortium, Custon
  Whitepaper

• An Open, Interoperable Cloud
  Andy Edmonds, Thijs Metsch, Eugene Luster
  InfoQ Technical Article

• RESERVOIR & SLA@SOI Collaboration White Paper
  Juan A. Cáceres, Shimon Agassi, Alfonso Castro, Clovis Chapman, Andrew Edmonds, Elmar Husmann, Constantinos Kotsokalis, Luis M. Vaquero, Miha Vuk
  White Paper (PDF)

• SLA@SOI Efficient Distribution of Virtual Machines
  Miha Stopar, XLAB
  Technical Report (PDF)

• Moving to the Cloud
  Cloud Computing Use Cases Group including Mike Nolan
  White Paper (PDF)

• SLA@SOI Reference Architecture Whitepaper
  SLA@SOI Consortium
  Technical Report (PDF)

• Enterprise IT Use Case (Public release)
  SLA@SOI Consortium
  Technical Report (PDF)

• Using Cloud Standards for Interoperability of Cloud Frameworks
  Thijs Metsch, Andy Edmonds, Victor Bayon
  Technical Report (PDF)

• XMPP in the SLA@SOI project
  Primoz Hadalin
  RealTime WebCamp Ljubljana
  Presentation in Slovene (PDF)

• Dynamic set-up of Monitoring Infrastructures for SLA Management
  George Spanoudakis
  SLA@SOI Technical Paper
  Paper (PDF)

• Challenges in SLA Translation
  Hui Li, Wolfgang Theilmann, Jens Happe
  SLA@SOI Technical Paper
  Paper (PDF)

Dependable Cloud Presentations from SLA@SOI – April 28th 2011

• SLA@SOI and the strategic relevance for SAP AG – Wolfgang Theilmann (PDF)
• Intel’s Cloud Vision and the role of SLA@SOI – John Kennedy (PDF)
• SLA Monitoring in Healthcare Services – Giampaolo Armellin and Annamaria Chiasera (PDF)

Information Day Presentations – September 28th 2010

• SLA@SOI – Keynote – Dr. Rainer Zimmermann (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Keynote – Dr. Joachim Schaper (WMV)
• SLA@SOI – Keynote – Mr. Peter Matthews (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Overview (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Innovation Overview (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Model (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Negotiation (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Monitoring (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Industrial Impact and adoption (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case – ERP_Hosting (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case – Enterprise IT (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case – Service Aggregator (PDF)
• SLA@SOI – Use Case – eGovernment (PDF)