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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 44 , Issue 7 (July 2001) table of contents

Pages: 58 - 64

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ritu Agarwal	Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Thomas W. Ferratt	Univ. of Dayton, Dayton, OH

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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