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Two NP-complete problems related to information retrieval

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Lipski, W. (1977). Two NP-complete problems related to information retrieval. In: Karpiński, M. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1977. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08442-8_115

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