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Volume 6 , Issue 4 (October 1984) table of contents
Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 174

Pages: 505 - 526

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0164-0925

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Jack W. Davidson	University of Virginia
Christopher W. Fraser	University of Arizona

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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