O artigo intitulado "PAMPA in the wild: a real-life evaluation of a lightweight ad-hoc broadcasting family" da autoria de Christopher Winstanley, Rajiv Ramdhany, François Taïani, Barry Porter and Hugo Miranda, este último professor no DI, recebeu o a distinção de Best Paper Award, na

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