@article {16363,
	title = {Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {699{\textendash}720},
	abstract = {Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments. Cloud Federations envisage a distributed, heterogeneous environment consisting of various cloud infrastructures by aggregating different {IaaS} provider capabilities coming from both the commercial and the academic area. In this paper, we introduce a federated cloud management solution that operates the federation through utilizing cloud-brokers for various {IaaS} providers. In order to enable an enhanced provider selection and inter-cloud service executions, an integrated monitoring approach is proposed which is capable of measuring the availability and reliability of the provisioned services in different providers. To this end, a minimal metric monitoring service has been designed and used together with a service monitoring solution to measure cloud performance. The transparent and cost effective operation on commercial clouds and the capability to simultaneously monitor both private and public clouds were the major design goals of this integrated cloud monitoring approach. Finally, the evaluation of our proposed solution is presented on different private {IaaS} systems participating in federations.},
	issn = {1570-7873},
	author = {Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti and M. Oriol and P. Kotcauer and Acs, S. and M. Rodr{\'\i}gez and O. Merc{\`e} and A. Marosi and J. Marco and X. Franch}
}
@conference {5614035,
	title = {{LAYSI}: A Layered Approach for SLA-Violation Propagation in Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures},
	booktitle = {Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW), 2010 IEEE 34th Annual},
	year = {2010},
	month = {july},
	pages = {365 -370},
	keywords = {autonomic computing, cloud computing, contract law, fault tolerant computing, Internet, LAYSI, resource allocation, self manageable cloud infrastructure, service level agreement, SLA violation propagation},
	doi = {10.1109/COMPSACW.2010.70},
	author = {I. Brandic and V. C. Emeakaroha and M. Maurer and S. Dustdar and Acs, S. and Attila Kert{\'e}sz and G. Kecskem{\'e}ti}
}
