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Abdallah, S., Lesser, V. (2006). Learning Scalable Coalition Formation in an Organizational Context. In: Scerri, P., Vincent, R., Mailler, R. (eds) Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27972-5_9

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