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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Rynson W. H. Lau

  2. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    Jimmy H. P. Chim & Hong Va Leong

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada

    Mark Green

  4. Sun Microsystems, 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, U.S.A

    Antonio Si

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Lau, R.W.H., Chim, J.H.P., Green, M. et al. Object Caching and Prefetching in Distributed Virtual Walkthrough. Real-Time Systems 21, 143–164 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011199405471

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