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  1. Systems Group RMCS/Cranfield Shrivenham Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

    L. J. Davies

  2. Department of Systems Science, The City University, Northampton Square, 0HB, London, EC1V, UK

    R. L. Flood

  3. Department of Management Systems and Sciences, University of Hull, HU6 7UX, Hull, UK

    J. I. Ansell

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Davies, L.J., Flood, R.L. & Ansell, J.I. Book reviews. Systems Practice 1, 429–438 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066584

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