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			  UPDATES FOR
      UofT Department of Computer Science Seminar Schedule for
                the week of November 14th, 1983

Thursday, November 17th, 2:00 P.M., GB24?:  Mr. Paliath Narendran, Rensselear
   Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mathematics, Troy, New York:
   "Church-Rosser and related Thue systems".

                      **CANCELLED**
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Thursday, November 17th, 11:00 A.M., GB248:  Professor Paul D. Amer,
   Department of Computer Science and Information Sciences, University
   of Delaware AND Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology,
   National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.:  "Generating artificial
   traffic over a local area network using random number generators".

   ABSTRACT:  Effective testing and performance evaluation of a local
   area computer network requires the ability to generate artificial
   traffic.  This in turn requires algorithms for generating random
   number sequences.  Several random number generation algorithms have
   been considered for emulating traffic over NBSNET, a local area
   computer network at the National Bureau of Standards.  The algorithms
   are evaluated in light of certain time, space and programming
   constraints dictated by NBS's application.  The table-based method,
   using an additive uniform random number generator for selection from
   the table, was determined to be a satisfactory method considering
   NBSNET's constraints, and is being used to generate artificial traffic
   for continuing local network research experimentation.
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		Phyllis Eve Bregman
		CSRG, Univ. of Toronto
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