By Enrique Grapa, Geneva G. Belford
Communications of the ACM,
November 1977,
Vol. 20 No. 11, Pages 878-882
10.1145/359863.359895
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The file allocation problem — i.e. the problem of finding the optimal set of network sites at which to locate copies of a file — is known to be, in general, polynomial complete. Heuristics and other aids to finding optimal, or near-optimal, solutions are therefore much needed. In this paper we present three theorems which can be applied a priori to indicate that certain sites should (or should not) be included in an optimal allocation.
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