Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, Ph.D.

Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500
Prédio 43425 - Sala 236 - Bairro Agronomia
91501-970 - Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil

alberto [at] inf [dot] ufrgs [dot] br

+55 (51) 3308-7750

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Publications

Journals

Niemiec, G. S., Batista, L. M. S., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Nazar, G. L. (2019). A survey on FPGA support for the feasible execution of virtualized network functions. IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials. [ bib | DOI ]
Venancio, G., Garcia, V. F., Marcuzzo, L. C., Tavares, T. N., Franco, M. F., Bondan, L., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., Granville, L. Z., and Duarte Junior, E. P. Beyond VNFM: Filling the gaps of the ETSI VNF manager to fully support VNF life cycle operations. International Journal of Network Management. [ bib | DOI ]
Bondan, L., Franco, M. F., Marcuzzo, L. C., Venancio, G., Santos, R. L., Pfitscher, R. J., Scheid, E. J., Stiller, B., De Turck, F., Duarte Junior, E. P., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., and Granville, L. Z. (2019). FENDE: Marketplace-based distribution, execution, and life cycle management of VNFs. IEEE Communications Magazine, 57(1):13-19. [ bib | DOI ]
Pfitscher, R. J., Jacobs, A. S., Zembruzki, L., dos Santos, R. L., Scheid, E. J., Franco, M. F., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2019). Guiltiness: A practical approach for quantifying virtual network functions performance. Computer Networks, 161:14 - 31. [ bib | DOI ]
Martins, R. J., Knob, L. A. D., Silva, E. G., Wickboldt, J. A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2019). Specialized CSIRT for incident response management in smart grids. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 27(1):269-285. [ bib | DOI ]
Dobson, S., Hutchison, D., Mauthe, A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., and Sterbenz, J. P. G. (2019). Self-organization and resilience for networked systems: Design principles and open research issues. Proceedings of the IEEE, 107(4):819-834. [ bib | DOI ]
Nunes, I., Schardong, F., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2017). BDI2DoS: An application using collaborating BDI agents to combat DDoS attacks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 84:14 - 24. [ bib | DOI ]
Machado, C. C., Wickboldt, J. A., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2017). ARKHAM: An advanced refinement toolkit for handling service level agreements in software-defined networking. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 90:1 - 16. [ bib | DOI ]
Silva, A. S., Smith, P., Mauthe, A., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2015). Resilience support in software-defined networking: A survey. Computer Networks, 92:189 - 207. [ bib | DOI ]
Marnerides, A. K., Smith, P., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Mauthe, A. (2015). Power consumption profiling using energy time-frequency distributions in smart grids. IEEE Communications Letters, 19(1):46-49. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., and Sloman, M. (2015). Federating policy-driven autonomous systems: Interaction specification and management patterns. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 23(3):753-793. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., Mauthe, A., and Hutchison, D. (2014). Network resilience with reusable management patterns. IEEE Communications Magazine, 52(7):105-115. [ bib | DOI ]
Marnerides, A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Mauthe, A. (2014). Traffic anomaly diagnosis in internet backbone networks: A survey. Computer Networks, 73:224 - 243. [ bib | DOI ]
Marnerides, A., James, C., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Sait, S., Mauthe, A., and Murthy, H. (2011). Traffic anomaly diagnosis in internet backbone networks: A survey. ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology, 2(2). [ bib | DOI ]
Lupu, E., Dulay, N., Sloman, M., Sventek, J., Heeps, S., Strowes, S., Twidle, K., Keoh, S.-L., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2008). AMUSE: autonomic management of ubiquitous e-Health systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 20(3):277-295. [ bib | DOI ]

Book Chapters

Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., Mauthe, A., and Hutchison, D. (2014). Management Patterns for Network Resilience: Design and Verification of Policy Configurations, pages 85-95. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI ]
Shirazi, N.-u.-h., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Hutchison, D. (2014). Attack Pattern Recognition Through Correlating Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks, pages 125-134. Springer International Publishing. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., and Sloman, M. (2010). Policies to Enable Secure Dynamic Community Establishment, pages 121-145. IGI Global. [ bib | DOI ]

Conferences & Workshops

Garcia, V. F., Marcuzzo, L. C., Souza, G. V., Bondan, L., Nobre, J. C., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., Granville, L. Z., and Duarte Junior, E. P. (2019). An NSH-enabled architecture for virtualized network function platforms. In 33rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2019), pages 376-387, Matsue, Japan. Springer International Publishing. [ bib ]
Castanheira, L., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Benson, T. A. (2019). P4-InTel: Bridging the gap between ICF diagnosis and functionality [Best Paper Award]. In 1st ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Emerging In-Network Computing Paradigms (ENCP 2019), pages 21-26, Orlando, FL. ACM. [ bib | DOI ]
Castanheira, L., Parizotto, R., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2019). Flowstalker: Comprehensive traffic flow monitoring on the data plane using P4. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019), pages 1-6, Shanghai, China. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Cunha, V. A., Silva, E., de Carvalho, M. B., Corujo, D., Barraca, J. P., Gomes, D., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., Granville, L. Z., and Aguiar, R. L. (2019). Safeguarding from abuse by IoT vendors: Edge messages verification of cloud-assisted equipment. In IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2019), pages 599-603, Washington, DC. IEEE. [ bib ]
Pizzutti, M. and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2019). Adaptive multipath routing based on hybrid data and control plane operation. In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019), pages 730-738, Paris, France. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Parizotto, R., Castanheira, L., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2019). Abordagem de composição de programas P4 em redes programáveis. In Anais do XXXVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC 2019), pages 1028-1041, Gramado, Brazil. SBC. [ bib | DOI ]
Tavares, T. N., Marcuzzo, L. C., Garcia, V. F., de Souza, G. V., Franco, M. F., Bondan, L., De Turck, F., Granville, L. Z., Duarte Junior, E. P., dos Santos, C. R. P., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2018). NIEP: NFV infrastructure emulation platform. In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2018), pages 173-180, Krakow, Poland. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Neves, M., Freire, L., Schaeffer-Filho, A. E., and Barcellos, M. (2018). Verification of P4 programs in feasible time using assertions. In 14th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2018), pages 73-85, Heraklion, Greece. ACM. [ bib | DOI ]
Pizzutti, M. and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2018). An efficient multipath mechanism based on the flowlet abstraction and P4. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018), pages 1-6, Abu Dhabi, UAE. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Sampaio, L. S. R., Faustini, P. H. A., Silva, A. S., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2018). Using NFV and reinforcement learning for anomalies detection and mitigation in SDN. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2018), pages 00432-00437, Natal, Brazil. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Cunha, V. A., de Carvalho, M. B., Corujo, D., Barraca, J. P., Gomes, D., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., Granville, L. Z., and Aguiar, R. L. (2018). An SFC-enabled approach for processing SSL/TLS encrypted traffic in future enterprise networks. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2018), pages 01013-01019, Natal, Brazil. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Sousa, E., Cunha, V. A., de Carvalho, M. B., Corujo, D., Barraca, J. P., Gomes, D., Schaeffer-Filho, A., dos Santos, C. R. P., Granville, L. Z., and Aguiar, R. L. (2018). Orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS traffic processing architecture using MANO. In IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2018), pages 1-7, Verona, Italy. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Pfitscher, R. J., Jacobs, A. S., Scheid, E. J., Franco, M. F., dos Santos, R. L., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2018). A model for quantifying performance degradation in virtual network function service chains. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), pages 1-9, Taipei, Taiwan. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Schardong, F., Nunes, I., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2018). Providing cognitive components with a bidding heuristic for emergent NFV orchestration. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), pages 1-9, Taipei, Taiwan. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Freire, L., Neves, M., Leal, L., Levchenko, K., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Barcellos, M. (2018). Uncovering bugs in P4 programs with assertion-based verification. In Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR 2018), Los Angeles, CA. ACM. [ bib | DOI ]
Freire, L., Neves, M., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Barcellos, M. (2018). Combatendo vulnerabilidades em programas P4 com verifica cão baseada em asserções. In Anais do XVII Simpósio Brasileiro em Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg 2018), Brasília, Brazil. SBC. [ bib ]
Schardong, F., Nunes, I., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2017). A distributed NFV orchestrator based on BDI reasoning. In IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2017), pages 107-115, Lisbon, Portugal. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Scheid, E. J., Machado, C. C., Franco, M. F., dos Santos, R. L., Pfitscher, R. P., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2017). INSpIRE: Integrated NFV-based intent refinement environment. In IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2017), pages 186-194, Lisbon, Portugal. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Faustini, P. H. A., Silva, A. S., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2017). Emprego de NFV e aprendizagem por reforço para detectar e mitigar anomalias em redes definidas por software. In Anais do XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC 2017), Belém, Brazil. SBC. [ bib | http ]
Franco, M. F., d. Santos, R. L., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2016). VISION - interactive and selective visualization for management of NFV-enabled networks. In 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2016), pages 274-281, Crans-Montana, Switzerland. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Martins, R. J., Schaurich, V. G., Knob, L. A. D., Wickboldt, J. A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Granville, L. Z., and Pias, M. (2016). Performance analysis of 6LoWPAN and CoAP for secure communications in smart homes. In 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2016), pages 1027-1034, Crans-Montana, Switzerland. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Silva, E. G., Silva, A. S., Wickboldt, J. A., Smith, P., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2016). A one-class NIDS for SDN-based SCADA systems. In 40th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2016), volume 1, pages 303-312, Atlanta, Georgia. [ bib | DOI ]
Scheid, E. J., Machado, C. C., dos Santos, R. L., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2016). Policy-based dynamic service chaining in network functions virtualization. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), pages 340-345, Messina, Italy. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Machado, C. C., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2016). ANSwer: Combining NFV and SDN features for network resilience strategies. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), pages 391-396, Messina, Italy. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Pfitscher, R. J., Scheid, E. J., dos Santos, R. L., Obelheiro, R. R., Pillon, M. A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Granville, L. Z. (2016). DReAM - a distributed result-aware monitor for network functions virtualization. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016), pages 663-668, Messina, Italy. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Silva, A. S., Wickboldt, J. A., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2016). ATLANTIC: A framework for anomaly traffic detection, classification, and mitigation in SDN. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), pages 27-35, Istanbul, Turkey. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Wermann, A. G., Bortolozzo, M. C., Silva, E. G., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Gaspary, L. P., and Barcellos, M. (2016). ASTORIA: A framework for attack simulation and evaluation in smart grids. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016), pages 273-280, Istanbul, Turkey. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Langer, L., Smith, P., Hutle, M., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2016). Analysing cyber-physical attacks to a smart grid: A voltage control use case. In Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2016), pages 1-7, Genoa, Italy. [ bib | DOI ]
Bisol, R. V., Silva, A. S., Machado, C. C., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2016). Coleta e análise de características de fluxo para classificação de tráfego em redes definidas por software. In Anais do XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC 2016), Salvador, Brazil. SBC. [ bib ]
Silva, E. G., Knob, L. A. D., Wickboldt, J. A., Gaspary, L. P., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2015). Capitalizing on SDN-based SCADA systems: An anti-eavesdropping case-study. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015), pages 165-173, Ottawa, Canada. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Machado, C. C., Wickboldt, J. A., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2015). Policy authoring for software-defined networking management. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015), pages 216-224, Ottawa, Canada. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Machado, C. C., Wickboldt, J. A., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2015). An EC-based formalism for policy refinement in software-defined networking. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2015), pages 496-501, Larnaca, Cyprus. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Silva, A. S., Wickboldt, J. A., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Marnerides, A. K., and Mauthe, A. (2015). Tool support for the evaluation of anomaly traffic classification for network resilience. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2015), pages 514-519, Larnaca, Cyprus. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Schmidt, F. M., Geyer, C., Schaeffer-Filho, A., DeBloch, S., and Hu, Y. (2015). Change data capture in NoSQL databases: A functional and performance comparison. In IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2015), pages 562-567, Larnaca, Cyprus. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Silva, A. S., Machado, C. C., Bisol, R. V., Granville, L. Z., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2015). Identification and selection of flow features for accurate traffic classification in SDN. In 14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2015), pages 134-141, Cambridge, MA. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Machado, C. C., Granville, L. Z., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Wickboldt, J. A. (2014). Towards SLA policy refinement for QoS management in software-defined networking. In 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2014), pages 397-404, Victoria, Canada. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Smith, P., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Hutchison, D., and Mauthe, A. (2014). Management patterns: SDN-enabled network resilience management. In IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014), pages 1-9, Krakow, Poland. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Smith, P. and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2014). Management patterns for smart grid resilience. In 3rd International Workshop on Cyberpatterns (CyberPatterns 2014), pages 415-416, Oxford, UK. [ bib | DOI ]
Nunes I. O. ; Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2014). Reengineering network resilience strategies using a BDI architecture [Best Paper Award]. In Anais do V Workshop on Autonomous Software Systems (AutoSoft 2014), Maceió, Brazil. SBC. [ bib ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Mauthe, A., Hutchison, D., Smith, P., Yu, Y., and Fry, M. (2013). PReSET: A toolset for the evaluation of network resilience strategies. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), pages 202-209, Ghent, Belgium. IEEE. [ bib | http ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., Mauthe, A., Hutchison, D., Yu, Y., and Fry, M. (2012). A framework for the design and evaluation of network resilience management. In IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), pages 401-408, Maui, Hawaii. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Louca, A., Mauthe, A., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2012). Efficient message-passing and autonomic management architecture for NGNs. In IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), pages 1119-1126, Maui, Hawaii. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Yu, Y., Fry, M., Plattner, B., Smith, P., and Schaeffer-Filho, A. (2012). Resilience strategies for networked malware detection and remediation. In 6th International Conference on Network and Systems Security (NSS 2012), pages 233-247, Wuyishan, Fujian, China. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Yu, Y., Fry, M., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., and Hutchison, D. (2011). An adaptive approach to network resilience: Evolving challenge detection and mitigation. In 8th International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2011), pages 172-179, Krakow, Poland. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Smith, P., and Mauthe, A. (2011). Policy-driven network simulation: A resilience case study. In 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), pages 492-497, Taichung, Taiwan. ACM. [ bib | DOI ]
Peoples, C., Parr, G., Schaeffer-Filho, A., and Mauthe, A. (2011). Towards the simulation of energy-efficient resilience management. In 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), pages 63-68, Barcelona, Spain. ICST. [ bib | DOI ]
Smith, P., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Ali, A., Schöller, M., Kheir, N., Mauthe, A., and Hutchison, D. (2010). Strategies for network resilience: Capitalising on policies. In 4th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2010), pages 118-122, Zurich, Switzerland. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., and Sloman, M. (2009). Realising management and composition of self-managed cells in pervasive healthcare. In 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2009), London, UK. ICST. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., Sloman, M., and Eisenbach, S. (2009). Verification of policy-based self-managed cell interactions using alloy. In IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2009), pages 37-40, London, UK. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., Sloman, M., Keoh, S.-L., Lobo, J., and Calo, S. (2008). A role-based infrastructure for the management of dynamic communities. In Hausheer, D. and Schönwälder, J., editors, 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008), pages 1-14, Bremen, Germany. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Brodie, C., George, D., Karat, C., Karat, J., Lobo, J., Beigi, M., Wang, X., Calo, S., Verma, D., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., and Sloman, M. (2008). The coalition policy management portal for policy authoring, verification, and deployment. In IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2008), pages 247-249, Palisades, NY. IEEE. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A. and Lupu, E. (2007). Abstractions to support interactions between self-managed cells. In 1st International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2007), doctoral student workshop, pages 160-163, Oslo, Norway. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Keoh, S. L., Twidle, K., Pryce, N., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., Dulay, N., Sloman, M., Heeps, S., Strowes, S., Sventek, J., and Katsiri, E. (2007). Policy-based management for body-sensor networks. In 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2007), pages 92-98, Aachen, Germany. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Heeps, S., Sventek, J., Dulay, N., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., Sloman, M., and Strowes, S. (2007). Dynamic ontology mapping for interacting autonomous systems. In International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2007), pages 255-263, Lake District, UK. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [ bib ]
Keoh, S. L., Dulay, N., Lupu, E., Twidle, K., Schaeffer-Filho, A., Sloman, M., Heeps, S., Strowes, S., and Sventek, J. (2007). Self-managed cell: A middleware for managing body-sensor networks. In 4th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2007), pages 1-5, Philadelphia, Pa. [ bib | DOI ]
Schaeffer-Filho, A., Lupu, E., Dulay, N., Keoh, S. L., Twidle, K., Sloman, M., Heeps, S., Strowes, S., and Sventek, J. (2007). Towards supporting interactions between self-managed cells. In 1st International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), pages 224-236, Cambridge, MA. [ bib | DOI ]

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