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Editors-in-Chief:
Susan Finger Civil & Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Susan.Finger@cmu.edu	Lucienne Blessing Department of Mechanical Engineering Technical University of Berlin H10 Straße des 17.Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany Lucienne.Blessing@ktem.tu-berlin.de

Research in Engineering Design (RED)

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