"coflow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2016, Hamidreza Jahanjou, Erez Kantor, Rajmohan Rajaraman, “Asymptotically Optimal Approximation Algorithms for Coflow Scheduling”, in arXiv:",
          "text": "Furthermore, we give an O(#x5C;logn#x2F;#x5C;log#x5C;logn)-approximation polynomial time algorithm for scheduling circuit-based coflows where flow paths are not given (here n is the number of network edges). We note that our task-based coflow scheduling problem is equivalent to the fully-flexible order scheduling problem on unrelated parallel machines for which no O(1)-factor approximation algorithm was known prior to this work. We obtain our results by developing a general framework for coflow schedules, based on interval-indexed linear programs, which may extend to other coflow models and objective functions and may also yield improved approximation bounds for specific network scenarios..",
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        "(graph theory) Any of a series of flows that have a common source and destination"
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