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`` Strong '' NP-Completeness Results: Motivation, Examples, and Implications

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          Journal of the ACM  Volume 25, Issue 3
          July 1978
          175 pages
          ISSN:0004-5411
          EISSN:1557-735X
          DOI:10.1145/322077
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