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Yenta: a multi-agent, referral-based matchmaking system

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Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents table of contents

Marina del Rey, California, United States

Pages: 301 - 307

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-877-0

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Leonard N. Foner

MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., E15-305, Cambridge, MA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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