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Semantic SLAs for Services with Q-SLA [PDF]
AbstractThis paper reports the re-engineering efforts for OWL-Q, a prominent semantic quality-based service description language. These efforts have focused on making OWL-Q more compact without reducing its level of expressiveness as well as enriching it with semantic rules towards semantic validation of quality specifications and new knowledge ...
Kyriakos Kritikos +2 more
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Provider-Based Optimized Personalized Viable SLA (OPV-SLA) Framework to Prevent SLA Violation [PDF]
Service level agreement (SLA) is an essential agreement formed between a consumer and a provider in business activities. The SLA defines the business terms, objectives, obligations and commitment of both parties to a business activity, and in cloud computing it also defines a consumer's request for both fixed and variable resources, due to the elastic ...
Walayat Hussain +3 more
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The mission characteristics of a newly implemented rural helicopter emergency medical service
Background Physician-staffed helicopter emergency services (HEMS) can provide benefit through the delivery of specialist competence and equipment to the prehospital scene and through expedient transport of critically ill patients to specialist care. This
Daniel Kornhall +4 more
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Code-Switching in English as a Second Language (ESL) Classroom Settings: A Strategy or a Problem?
Code-switching, or switching from one language to another, is common in many bilingual and multilingual classrooms. Nonetheless, there have been opposing perspectives on its application in the classroom. While some studies argue that the presence of code-
Nur Anisah, Nasrullah Nasrullah
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Testing hypotheses of plant community productivity dependence on species and functional diversity
In this article, we tested two hypotheses about the dependence of primary aboveground biomass on community-weighted mean functional traits of dominant plant species (mass ratio hypothesis) and on functional diversity (niche complementarity hypothesis ...
T.V. Rogova +2 more
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Evaluation of Polyjet and SLA 3D printers
Purpose: To present and compare models created by two different rapid prototyping (RP) methods. Materials and methods: Using a three-dimensional graphic program (Blender, Blender Foundation) a 10 × 10 × 2 mm test specimen was created and printed with a ...
Márton József Suta +4 more
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The introduction of three-dimensional (3D) printing in the pharmaceutical arena has caused a major shift towards the advancement of modern medicines, including drug products with different configurations and complex geometries.
Xiaoyan Xu +6 more
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Management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons. We report a case of a 45-years-old patient with ALS to underline difficulties and challenges in ALS management.
Andrea Calvo +2 more
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Architectural Models Managed by Service Agreements
Recently, there has been an increase in interest in the Enterprise Architecture. This is due to the general complication of architectural styles used in the implementation of digital transformation and the transition to the digital economy.
Marina Anshina
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Automatic SLA management in SLA-aware architecture
While proposals for improvements to be introduced in the network in order to support a real differentiation of services follow each other, network operators seem to face these requirements by making over provisioning on their IP infrastructures. However, no mechanism is offered to request different end-to-end services at different prices. At the moment
D'Arienzo, M. +3 more
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