A Service Level Agreement (SLA) represents an agreement between a service user and a provider in the context of a particular service provision. SLAs contain Quality of Service properties that must be maintained by a provider. These are generally defined as a set of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). These properties need to be measurable and must be monitored during the provision of the service that has been agreed in the SLA. The SLA must also contain a set of penalty clauses specifying what happens when service providers fail to deliver the preagreed quality. Although significant work exists on how SLOs may be specified and monitored, not much work has focused on actually identifying how SLOs may be impacted by the choice of specific penalty clauses. The participation of a trusted mediator may be necessary to resolve conflicts between involved parties. The main focus of the paper is on identifying particular penalty clauses that can be associated with an SLA.
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Rana, O.F., Warnier, M., Quillinan, T.B., Brazier, F., Cojocarasu, D. (2008). Managing Violations in Service Level Agreements. In: Grid Middleware and Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78446-5_23
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