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This book presents a collection of articles with topics linked to the working areas of a project named MEDLAR in which both the editors are actively involved. The authors of all the contributions are currently working or worked at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University Linz (RISC-Linz).

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Pfalzgraf, J., Wang, D. (1995). Introduction. In: Pfalzgraf, J., Wang, D. (eds) Automated Practical Reasoning. Texts and Monographs in Symbolic Computation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6604-8_1

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