Completed Projects

AutoSLAM project proposes a unified policy-based framework for the adaptive automation of Service Level Agreement (SLA) establishment in diverse and dynamic service provisioning environments such as the cloud. SLA establishment is the process by which, service consumers and providers, with varying and potentially conflicting requirements and capabilities, interact with one another, in order to find mutually acceptable agreements over the service usage terms and conditions prior to its provision and consumption. Adaptive automation of the interaction and decision-making process allows service entities to participate more efficiently and effectively in the quality-aware and quality-assured service provision of services.

Smart Cloud Broker is a suite of software tools that allows cloud infrastructure consumers to compare the different Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings from various cloud service providers, and purchase the cloud configuration from the most competitive provider with the most appropriate specification that best meets the user's technical and business requirements. Each component of the Smart Cloud Broker provides a unique functionality that can be used individually or in combination with other components. Key components include Smart Cloud Bench, Smart Cloud Profiler, Smart Cloud Monitor and Smart Cloud Purchaser

Markets, which provide the primary mechanism by which we interact and make decisions in our society, are increasingly being reshaped by disruptive technologies such as cognitive analytics, digital engagement, social computing, cloud computing and the Internet of Things. We are witnessing a gradual shift from the traditional electronic marketplaces where markets offer catalogue-based products, to the next generation Smart Exchange platforms where products and services will be traded in different types of markets and tailored to individual preferences, enabling mass personalization and the so called market-of-one.

Composite services offer new capabilities through aggregations of simpler services often involving multiple providers. Management of provision processes of such aggregations is critical to ensure all the functional and non-functional requirements for the provided services are met both at the individual and aggregated service levels. Funded by the Smart Services CRC, this research project develops a framework and associated methods, techniques and tools for adaptive management of the flexible quality-assured service aggregation. In particular it aims at enabling on-demand aggregated service procurement, QoS measurements, multi-party service level agreement (SLA) and service quality assurance during provision of service aggregations.

The ASAPM project focuses on developing new agent-based techniques and software tools for the adaptive service agreement and process management in order to ensure collective functionality, end-to-end QoS, stateful coordination and adaptive provision of complex services. The project targets three different application areas of telecommunication services, smart information environments and multimedia services jointly with the Australian industry and government partners.

The ASG project is an Integrated Project supported by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission under the Information Society Technology Objective Open Development Platforms for Software and Services. The main goal of the project is to develop a proof-of-concept prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment.