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Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups

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Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups. / Blair, G. S.; Davies, N.; Coulson, G. et al.
Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 1992. p. 1-5 (EW 5).

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Blair, GS, Davies, N, Coulson, G & Williams, N 1992, Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups. in Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring. EW 5, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1145/506378.506389

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Blair, G. S., Davies, N., Coulson, G., & Williams, N. (1992). Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups. In Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (pp. 1-5). (EW 5). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/506378.506389

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Blair GS, Davies N, Coulson G, Williams N. Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups. In Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring. New York, NY, USA: ACM. 1992. p. 1-5. (EW 5). doi: 10.1145/506378.506389

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Blair, G. S. ; Davies, N. ; Coulson, G. et al. / Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups. Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 1992. pp. 1-5 (EW 5).

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