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Thomas Tran, Ph.D.

Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa



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Chapters in Books:

  1. [Ch1] Anahit Martirosysan, Thomas Tran, and Azzedine Boukerche. Building Context-Aware E-Commerce Systems: A Data Mining Approach. In I. Lee (eds), Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy, Vol. III, pages 1021-1029, Business Science Reference, February 2010
  2. [Ch2] Zhiyong Weng and Thomas Tran. Mobile Intelligent Agent Based Architecture for E-Commerce. In G. Alkhatib and D. Rine (eds), Agent Technologies and Web Engineering: Applications and Systems, pages 39-55, Information Science Reference, December 2008

Papers in Refereed Journals:

  1. [J1] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. A Decentralized Trustworthiness Estimation Model for Open Multi-Agent Systems (DTMAS). In Journal of Trust Management (JTM), Vol. 2, No. 3, 20 pages, Springer, March 2015
  2. [J2] Robin Cohen, Jie Zhang, John Finnson, Thomas Tran, and Umar Minhas. A Trust-Based Framework for Vehicular Travel with Non-Binary Reports and Its Validation via an Extensive Simulation Testbed. In Journal of Trust Management (JTM), Vol. 1, No. 10, 31 pages, Springer, October 2014
  3. [J3] Peyman Rahmati, Andy Adler, and Thomas Tran. Watermarking in E-Commerce. In International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 4, No. 6, pages 256-265, June 2013
  4. [J4] Abdulsalam Yassine, Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Shervin Shirmohammadi, and Thomas Tran. Knowledge-Empowered Agent Information System for Privacy Payoff in eCommerce. In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 32, No. 2, pages 445-473, Springer, August 2012
  5. [J5] Richong Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Yongyi Mao. Opinion Helpfulness Prediction in the Presence of "Words of Few Mouths". In World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWW), Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 117-138, Springer, March 2012
  6. [J6] Matthew Kellett, Thomas Tran, and Ming Li. Trust by Association: A Meta-Reputation System for P2P Networks. In Computational Intelligence (CI), Vol. 27, No. 3, pages 363-392, Blackwell Publishing, September 2011
  7. [J7] Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, and Thomas Tran. A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Disease-Treatment Relations in Short Texts. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 23, No. 6, pages 801-814, IEEE Computer Society, June 2011
  8. [J8] Richong Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Yongyi Mao. Real-Time Helpfulness Prediction Based on Voter Opinions. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience (CCPE), 12 pages, Wiley, June 2011
  9. [J9] Umar Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Robin Cohen. A Multi-faceted Approach to Modeling Agent Trust for Effective Communication in the Application of Mobile Ad Hoc Vehicular Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part C: Applications and Reviews (TSMC-C), Vol. 41, No. 3, pages 407-420, May 2011
  10. [J10] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. A Helpfulness Modeling Framework for Electronic Word-of-Mouth on Consumer-Opinion Platforms. In ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 23:1-23:18, ACM Press, April 2011
  11. [J11] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. An Information Gain Based Approach for Recommending Useful Product Reviews. In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 26, No. 3, pages 419-434, Springer, March 2011
  12. [J12] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. Helpful or Unhelpful: A Linear Approach for Ranking Product Reviews. In Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR), Special Issue on Comparison-Shopping and Related Recommender Intelligent Agents, Vol. 11, No. 3, pages 220-230, August 2010
  13. [J13] Umar Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Robin Cohen. Towards Expanded Trust Management for Agents in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. In International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP), Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 03-15, June 2010
  14. [J14] Thomas Tran. Protecting Buying Agents in E-Marketplaces by Direct Experience Trust Modelling. In Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 22, No. 1, pages 65-100, Springer, January 2010
  15. [J15] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. Automatically Filtering Useful User-Generated Contents Using N-Gram Features. In IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (IADIS IJ on WWW), Vol. 7, No. 2, pages 109-121, 2009
  16. [J16] Thomas Tran. Combining Collaborative Filtering and Knowledge-Based Approaches for Better Recommendation Systems. In Journal of Business and Technology (JBT), Vol. 2, No. 2, pages 17-24, Atlantic Academic Press, 2007
  17. [J17] Zhiyong Weng and Thomas Tran. A Mobile Intelligent Agent-Based Architecture for E-Business. In International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), Special Issue on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Vol. 2, No. 4, pages 63-80, IGI Publishing, October 2007
  18. [J18] Alireza Pourshahid and Thomas Tran. Toward an Effective Trust Management System for E-Commerce: Modeling Trust Components and Processes Using URN. In Journal of Business and Technology (JBT), Vol. 2, No. 2, pages 37-46, Atlantic Academic Press, 2007
  19. [J19] Thomas Tran. A Reliability Modelling Based Strategy to Avoid Infinite Harm from Dishonest Sellers in Electronic Marketplaces. In Journal of Business and Technology (JBT), Special Issue on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Vol. 1, No. 1, pages 69-76, Atlantic Academic Press, October 2005
  20. [J20] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Equilibrium of E-Markets Populated with Reputation-Oriented Learning Agents. In New Generation Computing (NGC), Special Issue on Agent-Based Approach to Economic and Social Complex Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pages 33-41, Ohmsha Springer, 2005
  21. [J21] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. The Stability of Electronic Marketplaces Where Buying Agents Use Reliability Modelling to Select Selling Agents. In Journal of Business and Technology (JBT), Special Issue on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Vol. 1, No. 1, pages 62-68, Atlantic Academic Press, October 2005
  22. [J22] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. The Advantages of Designing Adaptive Business Agents Using Reputation Modelling Compared to the Approach of Recursive Modelling. In Computational Intelligence (CI), Special Issue on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Vol. 20, No. 4, pages 532-547, Blackwell Publishing, November 2004
  23. [J23] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Reputation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Strategy for Agents in Electronic Marketplaces. In Computational Intelligence (CI), Special Issue on Agent Technology for Electronic Commerce, Vol. 18, No. 4, pages 550-565, Blackwell Publishing, November 2002

Papers in Submission to Refereed Journals:

  1. [Js1] Ala'a Slaity and Thomas Tran. Towards a More Secure RSA Using Shorter Keys and a New Security Component. Submitted to Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 12 pages, May 2016
  2. [Js2] Modhawi Alotaibi, Thomas Tran, and Aravind Pogu. The Impact of Information Cascade Model in Social Media. Submitted to Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 14 pages, March 2016
  3. [Js3] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. A Hybrid Trust Model Using Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Logic. Submitted to Computational Intelligence (CI), 23 pages, August 2015
  4. [Js4] Robin Cohen, John Finnson, Thomas Tran, and Jie Zhang. Improved Trust-Based Decision Making for Transportation Environments through an Ontological Representation. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 23 pages, June 2015

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  1. [C1] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. Modeling Trust Evaluating Agents: Towards a Comprehensive Trust Management for Multi-agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16) Fifth International Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC-16), 7 pages, AAAI Press, February 2016
  2. [C2] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. FTE: A Fuzzy Logic Based Trust Establishment Model for Intelligent Agents. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-15), pages 133-138, IEEE Computer Society, December 2015
  3. [C3] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. RLTE: A Reinforcement Learning Based Trust Establishment Model. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15) International Symposium on Recent Advances of Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE RATSP-15), pages 694-701, IEEE Computer Society, August 2015
  4. [C4] Basmah Almoaber and Thomas Tran. A Trust Certificate Model for Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International MCETECH Conference on E-Technologies (MCETECH-15), pages 166-179, Springer, May 2015
  5. [C5] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. A Trust Establishment Model for Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) Fourth International Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC-15), pages 2-7, AAAI Press, January 2015
  6. [C6] Haifa Alharthi and Thomas Tran. Item-Based Collaborative Filtering Using the Big Five Personality Traits. In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys-14) First Workshop on Recommender Systems for Television and Online Video (RecSysTV-14), 6 pages, October 2014
  7. [C7] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. Using Fuzzy Logic and Q-Learning for Trust Modeling in Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS-14) Ninth International Symposium on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA-14), pages 59-66, September 2014
  8. [C8] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. A Decentralized Trustworthiness Estimation Model for Open Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14) Third International Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC-14), pages 1-6, AAAI Press, July 2014
  9. [C9] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. Using Ensemble of Bayesian Classifying Algorithms for Medical Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2014), pages 263-268, Springer, May 2014
  10. [C10] Thomas Tran, Robin Cohen, and Eric Langlois. Establishing Trust in Multi-Agent Environments: Realizing the Comprehensive Trust Management Dream. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2014) Seventeenth International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust-2014), 9 pages, May 2014
  11. [C11] Peyman Rahmati, Thomas Tran, and Andy Adler. A Secure ID Card Based Authentication System Using Watermarking. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IPCV-13), 7 pages, July 2013 (Acceptance Rate: 30%)
  12. [C12] John Finnson, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, Umar Minhas, and Robin Cohen. A Framework for Modeling Trustworthiness of Users in Mobile Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks and Its Validation through Simulated Traffic Flow. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP-12), pages 76-87, July 2012 (Acceptance Rate: 29%)
  13. [C13] John Finnson, Robin Cohen, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Umar Minhas. Reasoning about User Trustworthiness with Non-Binary Advice from Peers. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP-12) Workshop on Trust, Reputation and User Modelling (TRUM-12), 12 pages, July 2012
  14. [C14] Richong Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Yongyi Mao. Recommender Systems from "Words of Few Mouths". In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), pages 2379-2384, July 2011 (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
  15. [C15] Abdulsalam Yassine, Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Shervin Shirmohammadi, and Thomas Tran. Online Information Privacy: Agent-Mediated Payoff. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST-11), 4 pages, July 2011
  16. [C16] Abdulsalam Yassine, Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Shervin Shirmohammadi, and Thomas Tran. Privacy Tradeoffs in eCommerce: Agent-Based Delegation for Payoff Maximization. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT-11), 4 pages, March 2011
  17. [C17] SK Alamgir Hossain, A. S. M. Mahfujur Rahman, Thomas Tran, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik. Location Aware Question Answering based Product Searching in Mobile Handheld Devices. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT-10), pages 189-195, IEEE Computer Society, October 2010
  18. [C18] A. S. M. Mahfujur Rahman, Thomas Tran, SK Alamgir Hossain, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik. Augmented Rendering of Makeup Features in a Smart Interactive Mirror System for Decision Support in Cosmetic Products Selection. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT-10), pages 203-206, IEEE Computer Society, October 2010
  19. [C19] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. Probabilistic Modeling of User-Generated Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-10), pages 171-175, IEEE Computer Society, September 2010 (Acceptance Rate: 21%)
  20. [C20] Abdulsalam Yassine, Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Shervin Shirmohammadi, and Thomas Tran. An Intelligent Agent-Based Model for Future Personal Information Markets. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-10), pages 457-460, IEEE Computer Society, September 2010 (Acceptance Rate: 21%)
  21. [C21] Umar Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Robin Cohen. Intelligent Agents in Mobile Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Leveraging Trust Modeling Based on Direct Experience with Incentives for Honesty. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-10), pages 243-247, IEEE Computer Society, September 2010 (Acceptance Rate: 21%)
  22. [C22] Umar Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, and Robin Cohen. Promoting Effective Exchanges between Vehicular Agents in Traffic through Transportation-Oriented Trust Modeling. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-10) Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT-10), pages 77-86, May 2010
  23. [C23] Tapu Kumar Ghose and Thomas Tran. A Dynamic Pricing Approach in E-Commerce based on Multiple Purchase Attributes. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-10), pages 111-122, Springer, May 2010
  24. [C24] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. A Novel Approach for Recommending Ranked User-Generated Reviews. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-10), pages 324-327, Springer, May 2010
  25. [C25] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. Review Recommendation with Graphical Model and EM Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-10), pages 1219-1220, ACM Press, April 2010 (Acceptance Rate: 14%)
  26. [C26] Catherine Cormier and Thomas Tran. Improving Trust and Reputation Modelling in E-Commerce Using Agent Lifetime and Transaction Count. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on E-Technologies (MCETECH-09), pages 184-195, Springer, May 2009 (Best Paper Award Nominee)
  27. [C27] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. Helping E-Commerce Consumers Make Good Purchase Decisions: A User Reviews-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on E-Technologies (MCETECH-09), pages 1-11, Springer, May 2009
  28. [C28] Tapu Kumar Ghose and Thomas Tran. Dynamic Pricing in Electronic Commerce Using Neural Network. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on E-Technologies (MCETECH-09), pages 227-232, Springer, May 2009
  29. [C29] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. An Entropy-Based Model for Discovering the Usefulness of Online Product Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-08), pages 759-762, IEEE Computer Society, December 2008 (Acceptance Rate: 20%)
  30. [C30] Richong Zhang and Thomas Tran. An Approach for Predicting and Ranking Consumer Review Helpfulness. In Proceedings of the 2008 IADIS International Conference on E-Commerce (IADIS E-Commerce-08), pages 128-135, IADIS Press, July 2008 (Outstanding Paper Award, Acceptance Rate: 24%)
  31. [C31] Alireza Pourshahid and Thomas Tran. Modeling Trust in E-Commerce: An Approach Based on User Requirements. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-07), pages 413-421, ACM Press, August 2007
  32. [C32] Zhiyong Weng and Thomas Tran. An Intelligent Agent-Based Framework for Mobile Business. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB-07), 8 pages, IEEE Computer Society, July 2007
  33. [C33] Alireza Pourshahid and Thomas Tran. A Visualization Approach for Modeling Trust in E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE-07), pages 832-835, IEEE Conference Publishing Service, 2007
  34. [C34] Thomas Tran. Designing Recommender Systems for E-Commerce: An Integration Approach. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-06), pages 512-518, ACM Press, August 2006
  35. [C35] Mehrdad Nojoumian and Thomas Tran. Computational Politics and Economy for the Establishment of an Integrated Intelligent Government. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE-06), pages 1062-1066, IEEE Conference Publishing Service, 2006
  36. [C36] Thomas Tran. Avoiding Infinite Harm in E-Marketplaces by Modeling Sellers' Reliability. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-05) Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB-05), pages 49-58, NRC Publishing, May 2005
  37. [C37] Kevin Regan, Thomas Tran, and Robin Cohen. Sharing Models of Sellers amongst Buying Agents in Electronic Marketplaces. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM-05) Workshop on Decentralized, Agent Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling, 5 pages, 2005
  38. [C38] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Improving User Satisfaction in Agent-Based Electronic Marketplaces by Reputation Modelling and Adjustable Product Quality. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-04), Vol. 2, pages 828-835, ACM Press, July 2004 (Acceptance Rate: 24.6%)
  39. [C39] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. The Macro Behaviour of E-Marketplaces Based on Reputation Modelling. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI-04) Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB-04), pages 21-30, NRC Publishing, May 2004
  40. [C40] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Learning Algorithms for Software Agents in Uncertain and Untrusted Market Environments. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), pages 1475-1476, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 2003 (Acceptance Rate: 19.5%)
  41. [C41] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Modelling Reputation in Agent-Based Marketplaces to Improve the Performance of Buying Agents. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on User Modelling (UM-03), pages 273-282, Springer, June 2003 (Best Paper Award Nominee, Acceptance Rate: 24.5%)
  42. [C42] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Strategy for Improved Satisfaction of Selling Software Agents in E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI-03), pages 434-446, Springer, June 2003
  43. [C43] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Reputation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Approach for Agents in Electronic Marketplaces. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02) Doctoral Consortium, pages 989, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, July 2002 (One of 13 PhD students worldwide selected to present doctoral research)
  44. [C44] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Learning Algorithm for Buying and Selling Agents in Electronic Marketplaces. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI-02), pages 31-43, Springer, May 2002
  45. [C45] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Learning Algorithm for Agents in Electronic Marketplaces. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02) Workshop on Multi-Agent Modelling and Simulation of Economic Systems, pages 46-53, AAAI Press, July 2002
  46. [C46] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. A Learning Strategy for Economically-Motivated Agents in Market Environments. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Distributed, Dynamic, Heterogeneous, Autonomous Data and Knowledge Sources, pages 51-56, AAAI Press, August 2001
  47. [C47] Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Hybrid Recommender Systems for Electronic Commerce. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-00) Workshop on Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets, pages 78-84, AAAI Press, July 2000

Papers in Submission to Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  1. [Cs1] Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran. Towards a Common Evaluation Framework for Trust Establishment Models. Submitted to the Tenth International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM-16), 8 pages, March 2016

Technical Reports:

  1. [T1] Thomas Tran. Reputation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Strategies for Economically-Motivated Agents in Electronic Market Environments, Ph.D. Thesis. Technical Report CS-2007-01, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2007


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