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@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ using a multimeter, the slack times, \dots{} Then a method will exploit these
 measurements to compute the scaling factor values for each processor.  This
 operation, measurements and computing new scaling factor, can be repeated as
 much as needed if the iterations are not regular.  Kimura, Peraza, Yu-Liang et
-al.~\cite{11,2,31} used learning methods to select the appropriate scaling
+al.~\cite{11,2,31} used varied heuristics to select the appropriate scaling
 factor values to eliminate the slack times during runtime.  However, as seen
 in~\cite{39,19}, machine learning methods can take a lot of time to converge
 when the number of available gears is big.  To reduce the impact of slack times,
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ selection method which has the following characteristics:
 \item It is well adapted to distributed architectures because it takes into
   account the communication time.
 \item It is well adapted to distributed applications with imbalanced tasks.
-\item it has very small footprint when compared to other methods
+\item It has very small footprint when compared to other methods
   (e.g.,~\cite{19}) and does not require profiling or training as
   in~\cite{38,34}.
 \end{enumerate}
@@ -574,9 +574,9 @@ In our cluster there are 18 available frequency states for each processor.  This
 leads to 18 run states for each program.  We use seven MPI programs of the NAS
 parallel benchmarks: CG, MG, EP, FT, BT, LU and SP.  Figure~(\ref{fig:pred})
 presents plots of the real execution times and the simulated ones.  The maximum
-normalized error between these two execution times varies between
-\np{0.0073}\AG[]{unit?} to \np{0.031} dependent on the executed benchmark.  The
-smallest prediction error was for CG and the worst one was for LU.
+normalized error between these two execution times varies between \np{0.0073} to
+\np{0.031} dependent on the executed benchmark.  The smallest prediction error
+was for CG and the worst one was for LU.
 
 \subsection{The experimental results for the scaling algorithm }
 
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ known in advance and depends on the global convergence of the iterative system.
 
 \section*{Acknowledgment}
 
-This work has been supported by the Labex ACTION project (contract
+This work has been partially supported by the Labex ACTION project (contract
 ``ANR-11-LABX-01-01'').  Computations have been performed on the supercomputer
 facilities of the MÃ©socentre de calcul de Franche-ComtÃ©.  As a PhD student,
 Mr. Ahmed Fanfakh, would like to thank the University of Babylon (Iraq) for
