Visions of the next-generation Internet of Services are driven by digital resources traded on a global scope. For the … resulting economic setting, automated on-line techniques for handling services and resources themselves, for advertising and … for the respective management of services and associated service level agreements is mandatory. This thesis presents the …

Cloud computing is a paradigm for using IT services with characteristics such as flexible and scalable service usage …, on-demand availability, and pay-as-you-go billing. Respective services are called cloud services and their nature usually … motivates a differentiation in three layers: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for cloud services offering functionality of …