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B D Adelstein1, S R Ellis

  • 1NASA-ARC, Moffet Field, CA 94035, USA. bda@eos.arc.nasa.gov

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part A, Systems and Humans : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
|December 1, 2001
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