TY - CHAP ED - Jacquet, Marie ED - Pietro Picco, Gian Y1 - 2005/// SP - 33 T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer A1 - De Nicola, Rocco A1 - Ferrari, GianLuigi A1 - Montanari, Ugo A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tuosto, Emilio EP - 48 T2 - Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2005) ID - eprints302 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11417019_3 AV - none TI - A Process Calculus for QoS-Aware Applications M1 - 3454 N2 - The definition of suitable abstractions and models for identifying, understanding and managing Quality of Service (QoS) constraints is a challenging issue of the Service Oriented Computing paradigm. In this paper we introduce a process calculus where QoS attributes are first class objects. We identify a minimal set of primitives that allow capturing in an abstract way the ability to control and coordinate services in presence of QoS constraints. SN - 3-540-25630-X ER -