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    Costas P. Pappis

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    Constantinos I. Siettos

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Pappis, C.P., Siettos, C.I., Dasaklis, T.K. (2013). Fuzzy Sets, Systems, and Applications. In: Gass, S.I., Fu, M.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1153-7_370

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