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Comparative Models of the File Assignment Problem

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Volume 14 , Issue 2 (June 1982) table of contents

Pages: 287 - 313

Year of Publication: 1982

ISSN:0360-0300

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Lawrence W. Dowdy	Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Derrell V. Foster	Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

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