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On functional independencies

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Janas, J.M. (1988). On functional independencies. In: Nori, K.V., Kumar, S. (eds) Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50517-2_98

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