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Koh, S.L. (2008). Dynamic Handling of Uncertainty for Decision Making. In: Qudrat-Ullah, H., Spector, J., Davidsen, P. (eds) Complex Decision Making. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73665-3_3

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