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Responses to “An AI view of the treatment of uncertainty” by Alessandro Saffiotti

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Dominic Clark ,
Jim Baldwin ,
Hamid Berenji ,
Paul Cohen ,
Didier Dubois ,
John Fox ,
John Lemmer ,
Henri Prade ,
David Spiegelhalter  and
Philippe Smets
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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 59 - 86
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