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

Barcelona, Spain

Pages: 56 - 63

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-230-1

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Omer F. Rana	Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Cardiff, PO Box 916, Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK
Kate Stout	Agents Research Team, SUN Microsystems, One Network Drive, Burlington, MA

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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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