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The concept of a harmonious family of sets, which generalizes, in a particular setting, the concept of a balanced collection, is characterized in set-like terms
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This work was supported, in part, by the Army Research Office under Contract DA-31-124-ARO(D)-366; and, in part, was done while the author was an IBM World Trade Corporation Fellow at IBM France.
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Balinski, M.L. A note on harmonious families. Mathematical Programming 3, 117–123 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01584979
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