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Local and global models of physics and computation

Susan StepneyDepartment of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 673-681 | Received 31 Jul 2013, Accepted 24 Oct 2013, Published online: 28 May 2014

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