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

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Pages: 385 - 391

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-983-1

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Michael Wooldridge	Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
Nicholas R. Jennings	Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

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IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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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