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Visualising and debugging distributed multi-agent systems

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Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 326 - 333

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-066-X

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Divine T. Ndumu	BT Labs, Suffolk, UK
Hyacinth S. Nwana	BT Labs, Suffolk, UK
Lyndon C. Lee	BT Labs, Suffolk, UK
Jaron C. Collis	BT Labs, Suffolk, UK

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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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