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Feng-Hsiag Hsiao, Sheng-Dong Xu, Chia-Yen Lin

    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
    |February 14, 2008
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