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   This software can be distributed and improved freely as long as the 
   current text is copied with it.

   The package was developed in the project MIAMI (Multimodal Integration
   in Advanced Multimedia Interfaces), funded by the European Union as
   ESPRIT III, Basic Research Project 8579. It was developed by Jan Nijtmans
   at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), 
   The Netherlands.

   On-line documentation can be found at:
           http://www.cogsci.kun.nl/tkpvm/welcome.html

   A report describing the concepts of tkpvm in more detail is:

    K. Hartung, S. Muench, L. Schomaker, T. Guiard-Marigny, B. Le Goff, 
    R. MacLaverty, J. Nijtmans, A. Camurri, I. Defee, C. Benoit (1996)
    
    Development of a System Architecture for the Acquisition, Integration,
    and Representation of Multimodal Information.
    Report of the ESPRIT Project 8579 MIAMI, -WP 3-, March 1996. 
    (obtainable at http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/~miami/reports/di3.ps)

                    MIAMI Project Manager: Lambert Schomaker, January 1999.
 
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