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ElMaraghy, Hoda A. (Ed.) Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual (CARV2011), Montreal, Canada, 2- 5 October 2011

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