Mobile users need lightweight devices with low energy consumption. When applications are executed on remote servers instead of locally on the end-user's device, the weight of...
Pieter Simoens, Lien Deboosere, Davy De Winter, Fi...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
The majority of web pages served today are generated dynamically, usually by an application server querying a back-end database. To enhance the scalability of dynamic content serv...
Khalil Amiri, Sanghyun Park, Renu Tewari, Sriram P...
This paper compares popular client and server architectures used for groupware. It presents a client framework and evaluates native, installed clients, Java-based applications, an...
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...
Abstract— In many IP media services, the media channels are point-to-point, dynamic, and set up with the participation of one or more application servers, even though the media p...
In the application layer of networks, many application servers are middleboxes in the paths of messages from source to destination. Applications require, as a basic coordination me...
A block-level continuous data protection (CDP) system logs every disk block update from an application server (e.g., a file or DBMS server) to a storage system so that any disk u...
The performance of Web servers and application servers is a crucial factor for the success of the underlying business activity. Current commercial servers (such as Apache and Micr...
Mohammad Shadi Al Hakeem, Jan Richling, Gero M&uum...