Temporal-Awareness in SLAs: Why Should We Be Concerned?

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Traditionally, Service Level Agreements have been decomposed in two sets of properties: functionals (what) and non-functionals (how). However, in our opinion, there has been a third key element that has had a minor attention from academy: temporal awareness (when). We believe temporality is a main concern that should be addressed in realistic scenarios. In doing so, this position paper discuss our experience in extending the specification WS Agreement with a temporal Domain Specific Language; importantly, main aim of the paper is to provoke a debate about the importance of temporality in SLAs

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Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología TIN2006-00472

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