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Oxford, England

Pages: 185 - 190

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-399-X

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L. Thorne McCarty

Computer Science Department, and Faculty of Law, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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