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Disaster in London - The LAS case study. / Dalcher, Darren.
Proceedings ECBS'99. IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 1999. p. 41-52.

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Dalcher, D 1999, Disaster in London - The LAS case study. in Proceedings ECBS'99. IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. IEEE COMPUTER SOC, pp. 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.1999.755860

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Dalcher, D. (1999). Disaster in London - The LAS case study. In Proceedings ECBS'99. IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (pp. 41-52). IEEE COMPUTER SOC. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.1999.755860

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Dalcher D. Disaster in London - The LAS case study. In Proceedings ECBS'99. IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1999. p. 41-52 doi: 10.1109/ECBS.1999.755860

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Dalcher, Darren. / Disaster in London - The LAS case study. Proceedings ECBS'99. IEEE Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 1999. pp. 41-52

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