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Volume 10 , Issue 3 (September 1978) table of contents

Pages: 225 - 261

Year of Publication: 1978

ISSN:0360-0300

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Peter J. Denning	Computer Sciences Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Jeffrey P. Buzen	BGS Systems, Inc., Box 128, Lincoln, Massachusetts

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