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

Pages: 213 - 253

Year of Publication: 1980

ISSN:0360-0300

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Lee D. Erman	USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California
Frederick Hayes-Roth	The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Victor R. Lesser	University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
D. Raj Reddy	Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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