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Volume 12 , Issue 2 (June 1980) table of contents

Pages: 179 - 211

Year of Publication: 1980

ISSN:0360-0300

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Toby J. Teorey	Electrical and Computer Engineering, CICE Program, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
James P. Fry	Database Systems Research Group, Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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