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Volume 47 , Issue 6 (June 2004) table of contents
Wireless sensor networks

Pages: 89 - 94

Year of Publication: 2004

ISSN:0001-0782

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Robert L. Glass	Software Practitioner newsletter & Elsevier's Journal of Systems and Software
V. Ramesh	Indiana University
Iris Vessey	Indiana University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Comparing the topics and methods of the three major subdivisions of the computing realm.

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