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Volume 26 , Issue 11 (November 1983) table of contents

Pages: 1022 - 1036

Year of Publication: 1983

ISSN:0001-0782

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Gerard Salton	Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Edward A. Fox	International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria
Harry Wu	ITT Programming Technology Center, Stratford, CT

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