Fuzzy Optimal Control for Multistage Fuzzy Systems

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Yuanguo Zhu

    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
    |January 25, 2011
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