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Hogg, T. (2008). Distributed Control of Microscopic Robots in Biomedical Applications. In: Prokopenko, M. (eds) Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_8

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