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reveals that the proposed RBS model works well
under various conditions resulting in a graceful
degradation of the grid performance.

Huda, M. T., Schmidt, W. H., & Peake, I. D.
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framework for Grid computing. Proceedings of
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Li, Y., & Mascagni, M. (2003). Improving
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The authors would like to thank Ms. Sayma Khan
for her assistance in some of the experiments
conducted for the study of the model.

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