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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 42 , Issue 3 (March 1999) table of contents

Pages: 62 - 69

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:0001-0782

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Anuj K. Jain	Ericsson New Concepts Group in Research Triangle Park, NC
Manuel Aparico, IV	IBM Intelligent Agents and Knowledge Management Group, Triangle Park, NC
Munindar P. Singh	North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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