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Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing archive
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing table of contents

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Pages: 83 - 91

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-952-1

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Michael Mitzenmacher

Digital Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA

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SIGOPS: ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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