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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Bidirectional Transformations </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Jeremy Gibbons and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            Vol. 9715
                of LNCS.
        Springer.
        2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Introduction to Bidirectional Transformations </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh&#x201a; James Cheney&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons&#x201a; James McKinna and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            Vol. 9715
                of LNCS.
        
                Pages 1&#x2212;28.
            2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Coalgebraic Aspects of Bidirectional Computation </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh&#x201a; James McKinna and Jeremy Gibbons  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Journal of Object Technology</em>.
        
            Vol. 16.
        
            No. 1.
        
                Pages 1:1&#x2212;29.
            2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            On Principles of Least Change and Least Surprise for Bidirectional Transformations </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> James Cheney&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons&#x201a; James McKinna and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Journal of Object Technology</em>.
        
            Vol. 16.
        
            No. 1.
        
                Pages 3:1&#x2212;31.
            2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Bidirectional Transformation is Effectful </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh&#x201a; James Cheney&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons&#x201a; James McKinna and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> May,
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            Reflections on Monadic Lenses </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh&#x201a; James Cheney&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons&#x201a; James McKinna and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            A List of Successes That Can Change the World</em>.
        
            Vol. 9600
                of LNCS.
        
                Pages 1&#x2212;31.
            Springer.
        April,
            2016.
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            Notions of Bidirectional Computation and Entangled State Monads </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh&#x201a; James Cheney&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons&#x201a; James McKinna and Perdita Stevens  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            Mathematics of Program Construction</em>.
        June,
            2015.
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            Entangled State Monads </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> James Cheney&#x201a; James McKinna&#x201a; Perdita Stevens&#x201a; Jeremy Gibbons and Faris Abou&#x2212;Saleh  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            BX Workshop</em>.
        March,
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            Towards a Repository of BX Examples </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> James Cheney&#x201a; James McKinna&#x201a; Perdita Stevens and Jeremy Gibbons  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            BX Workshop</em>.
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