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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of CENTERI

Procedia Computer Science 100 ( 2016 ) 271 – 279

1877-0509 © 2016 The Authors Published by Elsevier B.V This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license

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doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.155

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