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Steps toward self-aware networks

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Network software adapts to user needs and load variations and failures to provide reliable communications in largely unknown networks.

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                Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 7
                Barbara Liskov: ACM's A.M. Turing Award Winner
                July 2009
                141 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1538788
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