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A powerdomain for countable non-determinism

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Plotkin, G.D. (1982). A powerdomain for countable non-determinism. In: Nielsen, M., Schmidt, E.M. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0012788

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