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Software runaways—some surprising findings

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 28, Issue 3

Pages 16 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/272657.272687

Published: 01 June 1997 Publication History

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 28, Issue 3

Summer 1997

63 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/272657

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