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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 42 , Issue 1 (January 1999) table of contents

Pages: 94 - 97

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:0001-0782

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David E. Avison	Univ. of Southampton, England
Francis Lau	Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Michael D. Myers	Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Axel Nielsen	Aalborg Univ., Denmark

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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