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Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems table of contents

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Pages: 188 - 197

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-083-X

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Paul Barford	Computer Science Department, Boston University, 111 Cummington St, Boston, MA
Mark Crovella	Computer Science Department, Boston University, 111 Cummington St, Boston, MA

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SIGMETRICS: ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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