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We study properties of vicinal fcc(111) surfaces by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations where both the initial and the final local atomic environments are used to determine the hopping probability. By studying the terrace size distribution as a function of annealing temperature and surface vicinality, we conclude that an effective attractive interaction between steps is present at lower temperatures...