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Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 58 - 67

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-176-3

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Amy R. Greenwald	IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Jeffrey O. Kephart	IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Gerald J. Tesauro	IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

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SIGEcom: ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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