To foster the industrial adoption of virtualized services, it is necessary to address two important problems: (1) the efficient analysis, dynamic composition and deployment of services with qualitative and quantitative service levels and (2) the dynamic control of resources such as storage and processing capacities according to the internal policies of the services. The position supported in th...

Current machine algorithms for analysis of unstructured data typically show low accuracies due to the need for human-like intelligence. Conversely, though humans are much better than machine algorithms on analyzing unstructured data, they are unpredictable, slower and can be erroneous or even malicious as computing agents. Therefore, a hybrid platform that can intelligently orchestrate machine ...

Retaining workers on micro-task crowdsourcing platforms is essential in order to guarantee the timely completion of batches of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs). Worker retention is also a necessary condition for the introduction of SLAs on crowdsourcing platforms. In this paper, we introduce novel pricing schemes aimed at improving the retention rate of workers working on long batches of similar...

Cisco’s Service-Level Assurance Protocol (Cisco’s SLA Protocol) is a Performance Measurement protocol that has been widely deployed. The protocol is used to measure service-level parameters such as network latency, delay variation, and packet/frame loss. This document describes the Cisco SLA Protocol Measurement-Type UDP-Measurement, to enable vendor interoperability.

1 France Telecom R&D, 2 Avenue Pierre-Marzin 22307 Lannion Cedex France, [email protected] 2 LaMI umr 8042 CNRS, Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne Tour Evry 2 / 4ème étage, 523 Place des terrasses de l’Agora, 91000 Évry France, [email protected] 3 CEA-Saclay, Laboratoire ”Logiciel pour la Sûreté des Procédés”, DRT/LIST/DTSI/SLA, F-91191 GIF sur Yvette Cedex France, alain...

As the Internet is undergoing substantial changes, there are many demands for the quality of the communication. Differentiated Services was standardized to meet such requirements. Currently, it is assumed that Diffserv is used under static Service Level Agreement (SLA). Under static SLA, the agreement between the service provider and the service subscribers are made as a result of negotiation b...

This paper weighs the implications of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and practice for Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE). It describes the different psychological processes of implicit learning, explicit learning, and explicit instruction, and reviews educational research into the benefits and limitations of each. It considers how SLA differs from first language acq...

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) describe the desired behavior of a service. They present agreed-upon target behaviors (e.g. capacity, performance, availability, cost) that the clients of a service can expect, and that the service provider can manage against. Both clients and service providers need a way to monitor how a service is doing against its SLOs, and display the result of that monitorin...

What is the importance of specific control and contractual mechanisms for IT outsourcing relationship quality and outsourcing success? Employing a survey among financial institutions and applying Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) known from marketing research, we analyse the relative importance of Service Level Agreements, control and contractual mechanisms for relationship quality and outs...

Information grid researches on enabling technologies for sharing information and application effectively and expediently in a wide-area enterprise environment. The Grid-Key/Grid architecture of Vega Information Grid aims to enable user to use grid application at anytime, anywhere by any device, and to achieve a high productivity services. Accordingly, the evaluation of information grid needs to...