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Abelson, H., Beal, J., Sussman, G.J. (2017). Amorphous Computing. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_18-3
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