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On the expected complexity of distributed selection

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Santoro, N., Sidney, J.B., Sidney, S.J. (1987). On the expected complexity of distributed selection. In: Brandenburg, F.J., Vidal-Naquet, G., Wirsing, M. (eds) STACS 87. STACS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0039627

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