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References
1. Mehlhorn K. Data structures and algorithms, vol 1,
Sorting and searching. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1984
2. de Kleer J. An assumption-based TMS. Artificial Intelligence
1986; 28:127-162
APPENDIX. REFERENCES IN COMPUTING BOOKS
Text Citations
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(1970, 1975), which is compatible with ISO 833 and ANSI Z39.5 (1969).
Journal article
1. de Kleer J. An assumption-based TMS. Artif Intell 1986;
28:127-162
Book
2. Mehlhorn K. Data structures and algorithms, vol 1,
Sorting and searching. Springer-Verlag, London,
1984
3. Mellish CS. Computer interpretation of natural language
descriptions. Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1985
Chapter in a book (or paper in a proceedings)
4. Quint V, Valton I, Bedor H. Grif: an interactive environment
for TEX. In: Desarmenien J (ed) TEX for scientific documentation.
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986, pp 145-158 (Lecture notes in computer
science no. 236)
Thesis
5. Fagin BS. A parallel execution model for Prolog. PhD
thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
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