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Workshop on Software and Performance archive
Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Software and performance table of contents

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Pages: 131 - 144

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-060-0

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Brian A. Nixon

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto

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SIGMETRICS: ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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