UMTS is real. In a continuously growing number of countries we can walk in the stores of
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS
2011). TACAS 2011 took place in Saarbr¨ucken, Germany, March 28–31, 2011,
as part of the 14th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS 2011), whose...
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