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Perfect fault tolerance of the n-k-n network

Elko B Tchernev1, Rory G Mulvaney, Dhananjay S Phatak

  • 1Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA. etcher1@umbc.edu

Neural Computation
|August 19, 2005
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