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Information management in context trees involves three principal problems: retrieval, updating and garbage collection. These problems are discussed in the paper, and solutions are proposed and motivated. A list organization and relative algorithms to implement context trees are presented. Finally, experimental results are reported about the behaviour of a system which exploits context trees.
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Montangero, C., Pacini, G., Simi, M. et al. Information management in context trees. Acta Informatica 10, 85–94 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00260926
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