@conference { ISI:000255185000029,
	title = {Practical load distribution models for Web services based environments},
	booktitle = {2008 INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEEDINGS},
	year = {2007},
	note = {3rd International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies, Montreal, CANADA, JAN 23-25, 2008},
	pages = {258+},
	publisher = {Univ Quebec; CGI; SAP; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Univ Quebec; CGI; SAP; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Web services QoS management frameworks proposed in the literature deal essentially with issues such as QoS specification, QoS-based discovery and selection, and QoS monitoring of Web services. However, only few works have considered the issue of load distribution in a Web services context. In this paper, we investigate three models that might be used to achieve load distribution in a Web services environment. We focus on load distribution at the operation level by considering the assignment of methods execution to appropriate Web services according to some selection policies. The experiments we have conducted using the broker-oriented model have shown that better results are obtained using the random policy for Web service selection.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-3082-6},
	doi = {10.1109/MCETECH.2008.21},
	author = {Badidi, Elarbi and Serhani, M. Adel and Esmahi, Larbi and Elkoutbi, Mohamed},
	editor = {Kropf, P and Benyoucef, M and Mili, H}
}
@conference { ISI:000245715700012,
	title = {WS-QoSM: A broker-based architecture for web services QoS management},
	booktitle = {2006 Innovations in Information Technology},
	year = {2006},
	note = {Innovations in Information Technology Conference 2006, Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES, NOV 19-21, 2006},
	pages = {56-60},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {QoS management has been extensively studied in network-based multimedia applications. However, its application to Web services is very recent In this paper, we present WS-QoSM, it Web services QoS management architecture capable of supporting at runtime the QoS management operations, QoS provisioning and assurance in delivering Web services. Our proposed architecture is based on the commonly used notion of QoS brokerage service to mediate between service requesters and service providers. Its responsibilities include performance monitoring of Web services, implementation of Web service selection policies, and negotiation of QoS. Besides, we present a server-oriented scheme for load distribution based on the sender-initiated and receiver-initiated strategies previously used in general distributed systems.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-0673-9},
	author = {Badidi, Elarbi and Esmahi, Larbi and Serhani, M. Adel and Elkoutbi, Mohamed}
}
