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Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Melbourne, Australia

Pages: 59 - 65

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-504-6

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Stephen G. Eick
Clive R. Loader
M. David Long
Lawrence G. Votta
Scott Vander Wiel

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IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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