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Malsch, T. Naming the Unnamable: Socionics or the Sociological Turn of/to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 4, 155–186 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011446410198

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