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Managing the hidden costs of coordination

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Controlling coordination costs when multiple, distributed perspectives are essential.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 4
April 2020
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ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3389339
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