Abstract Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has benefited quite a lot from Construction Grammar. Most of the previous SLA researches adopting constructionist approach have been primarily engaged in issues pertinent to relevance construction SLA, process second language (L2) learning, and factors affecting L2 learning. This paper distinguishes itself research by embarking on new direction perspec...

Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal negotiated agreement between a service provider and a customer. The service level management (SLM) is the integrated management of all functionalities in the SLA life cycle. When a customer orders a service from a service provider, an SLA is negotiated and then a contract is made. In the SLA contract, QoS parameters that specify the quality level of ser...

In second language acquisition (SLA) research it is well-known that interlanguages are autonomous and rule-governed linguistic systems whose grammar cannot be described simply in terms of errors and deviations from L2 norms. However, assessment practices at school, both formative and summative, heavily rely on counting errors and scoring them based on various types of ‘gravity’. Carrying out a ...

Management and establishment of Service Level agreement (SLA) in cloud totally depends upon the various parameters which helps in establishment of SLA between the service providers and users. These parameters are the deciding factors for provisioning of services and in formation of SLA metrics. In this paper, we have analyzed probable parameters that can form or act as a SLA for entire cloud sy...

In this paper, we study the important issue of verifying service-level agreement (SLA) with an untrusted cloud and present an SLA verification framework that utilizes a third-party auditor (TPA). A cloud provides users with elastic computing and storage resources in a pay-as-you-go way. An SLA between the cloud and a user is a contract that specifies the computing resources and performances tha...

The study of second langiage (L2) speech production has a long history in second language (SLA) research, both for what it can tell us about the development of the specific skill and how it might illuminate the general processes of SLA. Over time, studies in L2 phonological attainment have become a battleground for perennial issues in SLA research encompassing cognitive, psychological, and soci...

The swine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) or swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) complex is one of the most gene-dense regions in the swine genome. It consists of three major gene clusters, the SLA class I, class III and class II regions, that span approximately 1.1, 0.7 and 0.5Mb, respectively, making the swine MHC the smallest among mammalian MHC so far examined and the only one known to spa...

Composite cloud services based on the methodologies of Software as a Service and Service-Oriented Architecture are transforming how people develop and use software. Cloud service providers are confronting the service selection problem when composing composite cloud services. This paper deals with an important type of service selection problem, minimizing the total cost of providing a composite ...

The telecom market is evolving towards services. The arrival of next generation networks with a new generation of service and market deregulation have led to the emergence of many new service providers for whom Service Level Agreement (SLA) management is a key differentiator. Service provider differentiation will depend largely on the reliability of their SLA management and monitoring, and the ...