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27@incollection{sch93-scalability,
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82   howpublished="private communication",
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87   title="Ordering sparse matrices
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90   year="1996",
91   note="Conference presentation"}
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106     booktitle="Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices",
107     year="1996",
108     note="Conference presentation"}
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122  title       = {METIS~4.0: Unstructured graph partitioning and
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124  institution = {Department of Computer Science,
125                 University of Minnesota},
126  year        = {1998},
127  number      = {},
128  note        = {Available on the WWW at URL
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130}
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135   booktitle="Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices",
136   year="1996",
137   note="Conference presentation"}
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154                 Tennessee",
155     address="Knoxville, Tennessee",
156     year="1995"}
157
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160     title="An approximate minimum degree ordering algorithm",
161     number = "TR-94-039",
162     institution="University of Florida",
163     year="1994"}
164
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171     year="1996"}
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178     year="1996"}
179
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194     year="1995"}
195
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202     year="1998",
203     pages="513-561"}
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215     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
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217     number="ISSTECH-96-002",
218     institution="Boeing Information and Support Services",
219     year="1996"}
220
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223     title="Using domain decompositions to find graph bisectors",
224     number="ISSTECH-95-024",
225     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
226     year="1995"}
227
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234     pages="506-534"}
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236@techreport{ash95-robust,
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248     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
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