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Advances
PUTERS
VOLUME 63
Advances in
COMPUTERS
Parallel, Distributed,
and puting
GUEST EDITOR
ALI R. HURSON
Department puter Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
SERIES EDITOR
MARVIN V. ZELKOWITZ
Department puter Science
and Institute for puter Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
VOLUME 63
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