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Volume 3 ,  Issue 1  (January 1996) table of contents
Pages: 58 - 75  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISSN:1072-5520
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Keith A. Butler  Boeing Information & Support Services Research & Technology Seattle, WA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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