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  1. Mihai Barbuceanu
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  1. School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Kessels Rd, Nathan QLD, 4111, Australia

    Peter Bernus

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology, Corporate Management, Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Kai Mertins

  3. Information and Technology Management, University of Saarland, Postfach 15 11 50, 66041, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Günter Schmidt

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Barbuceanu, M., Teigen, R. (1998). Higher Level Integration by Multi-Agent Architectures. In: Bernus, P., Mertins, K., Schmidt, G. (eds) Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26661-5_36

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