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Volume 30 , Issue 2 (April 1983) table of contents

Pages: 323 - 342

Year of Publication: 1983

ISSN:0004-5411

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Daniel Brand	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Ruschlikon, Switzerland
Pitro Zafiropulo	IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, 8803 Ruschlikon, Switzerland

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