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Berleant, D., Anderson, G., Goodman-Strauss, C. (2008). Arithmetic on Bounded Families of Distributions A Denv Algorithm Tutorial. In: Kreinovich, V., Korvin, A., Baker Kearfott, R., Hu, C. (eds) Knowledge Processing with Interval and Soft Computing. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-326-2_9

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