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Winter Simulation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 1037 - 1044

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-7803-4278-X

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Vern Paxson	Network Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Sally Floyd	Network Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-SMCS : Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
INFORMS/CS : Computer Science TC
SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
SCS : Society for Computer Simulation
ASA : American Statistical Association
IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA

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