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The design requirements of office systems

Editor: John O. Limb Authors:

Giampio Bracchi,

Barbara PerniciAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 2, Issue 2

Pages 151 - 170

https://doi.org/10.1145/521.357416

Published: 24 May 1984 Publication History

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ACM Transactions on Information Systems Volume 2, Issue 2

April 1984

92 pages

ISSN:1046-8188

EISSN:1558-2868

DOI:10.1145/521

Editor:
John O. Limb
Central Services Organization (of the Bell Operating Companies), Murray Hill, NJ

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