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Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Issue 8

Pages 76 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/2699416

Published: 23 July 2015 Publication History

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Exploring three interdisciplinary areas and the extent to which they overlap. Are they all part of the same larger domain?

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August 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2808213

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