The main areas that the IRMOS platform advances the state of the art in SLAs are: (i) requirements can be expressed in the language of the application domain, (ii) the user’s needs are dynamically translated to infrastructure requirements in fine grained SLAs, (iii) evaluation and mitigations mechanisms are able to quickly detect SLA violations and take necessary actions at run-time. Thus, it is evident, that the proposed framework adds to the already known benefits of cloud computing the possibility to execute interactive and resource-demanding applications with guaranteed QoS, that existing commercial offerings lack.

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