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Locality in Distributed Graph Algorithms

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Fraigniaud, P. (2016). Locality in Distributed Graph Algorithms. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_608

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