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- title: "Neural Nets Raise the Roof"
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  - name: "Samuel Moyle"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2003"
  doi: "http://csdl2.computer.org/dl/mags/ex/2003/01/x1008.pdf"
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  journal: "IEEE Intelligent Systems"
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- title: "Evolutionary optimisation of evolving connectionist systems"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  year: "2002"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2002.1006995"
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  pages: "606-610"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 12-17, 2002, Volume 1"
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  isbn: "0-7803-7282-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WattsK02"
- title: "Null-Model Validation of MLP Input Contribution Analysis in Ecology"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Susan P. Worner"
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  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HIS.2006.51"
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    doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HIS.2006.51"
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  pages: "63"
  booktitle: "6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2006), 13-15 December 2006, Auckland, New Zealand"
  publisher: "IEEE Computer Society"
  isbn: "0-7695-2662-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WattsW06:0"
- title: "A Methodology for Speech Data Analysis and a Framework for Adaptive Speech Recognition Using Fuzzy Neural Networks"
  author:
  - name: "Nikola Kasabov"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/nikola-kasabov"
  - name: "Robert Kozma"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/robert-kozma"
  - name: "Richard Kilgour"
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  - name: "Mark R. Laws"
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  - name: "J. Taylor"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
    link: "http://mike.watts.net.nz"
  - name: "Andrew R. Gray"
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  year: "1997"
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  pages: "1055-1060"
  booktitle: "Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems: Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems, ICONIP 1997, Volume II, Dunedin, New Zealand, 24-28 November, 1997"
  editor:
  - name: "Nikola Kasabov"
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  - name: "Robert Kozma"
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  - name: "Kitty Ko"
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  - name: "Robert O'Shea"
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  - name: "George Coghill"
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  - name: "Tom Gedeon"
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  publisher: "Springer"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "KasabovKKLTWG97"
- title: "FuNN/2 - A Fuzzy Neural Network Architecture for Adaptive Learning and Knowledge Acquisition"
  author:
  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  - name: "Jaesoo Kim"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
    link: "http://mike.watts.net.nz"
  - name: "Andrew R. Gray"
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  year: "1997"
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  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KasabovKWG97"
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  journal: "Inf. Sci."
  volume: "101"
  number: "3-4"
  pages: "155-175"
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- title: "Predicting the Distribution of Fungal Crop Diseases from Abiotic and Biotic Factors Using Multi-Layer Perceptrons"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Susan P. Worner"
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  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02490-0_110"
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  pages: "901-908"
  booktitle: "Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, 15th International Conference, ICONIP 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, November 25-28, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Part I"
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  - name: "Mario Köppen"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  - name: "George G. Coghill"
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  volume: "5506"
  series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-3-642-02489-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WattsW09"
- title: "Using MLP to Determine Abiotic Factors In uencing the Establishment of Insect Pest Species"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2006.246903"
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  pages: "1840-1845"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2006, part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16-21 July 2006"
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  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "WattsW06"
- title: "Adaptive speech recognition with evolving connectionist systems"
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  - name: "Akbar Ghobakhlou"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  year: "2003"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00165-8"
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  journal: "Inf. Sci."
  volume: "156"
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- title: "Dynamic optimisation of evolving connectionist system training parameters by pseudo-evolution strategy"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  year: "2001"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2001.934346"
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  pages: "1335-1342"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2001, COEX, Seoul, Korea, May 27-30, 2001"
  publisher: "IEEE"
  isbn: "0-7803-6657-3"
  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Genetic algorithms for structural optimisation, dynamic adaptation and automated design of fuzzy neural networks"
  author:
  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "1997"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNN.1997.614698"
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  pages: "2546-2549"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'97), Houston, TX, USA, June 9-12, 1997"
  publisher: "IEEE"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "KasabovW97"
- title: "Using Time Lagged Input Data to Improve Prediction of Stinging Jellyfish Occurrence at New Zealand Beaches by Multi-Layer Perceptrons"
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  - name: "David R. Pontin"
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  - name: "Susan P. Worner"
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  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02490-0_111"
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  pages: "909-916"
  booktitle: "Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, 15th International Conference, ICONIP 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, November 25-28, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Part I"
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  - name: "Mario Köppen"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  - name: "George G. Coghill"
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  series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
  publisher: "Springer"
  isbn: "978-3-642-02489-4"
  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Comparing ensemble and cascaded neural networks that combine biotic and abiotic variables to predict insect species distribution"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Susan P. Worner"
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  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.08.003"
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  journal: "Ecological Informatics"
  volume: "3"
  number: "6"
  pages: "354-366"
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- title: "Bandwidth Reservation Approach to Improve Quality of Service in Software-Defined Networking: A Performance Analysis"
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  - name: "Amir Hossein Moravejosharieh"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Yu Song"
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  year: "2018"
  doi: "https://doi.org/10.1109/JCSSE.2018.8457339"
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  booktitle: "15th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, JCSSE 2018, Nakhonpathom, Thailand, July 11-13, 2018"
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  isbn: "978-1-5386-5538-2"
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- title: "Genetic Algorithms for the Design of Fuzzy Neural Networks"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  year: "1998"
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  pages: "793-796"
  booktitle: "The Fifth International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP R98, Kitakyushu, Japan, October 21-23, 1998, Proceedings"
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  - name: "Shiro Usui"
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  publisher: "IOA Press"
  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Nominal-scale Evolving Connectionist Systems"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2006"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2006.246974"
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  pages: "2055-2059"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2006, part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16-21 July 2006"
  publisher: "IEEE"
  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Applying computational intelligence methods to modeling and predicting common bean germination rates"
  author:
  - name: "A. Bianconi"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Y. Huang"
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  - name: "A. B. S. Serapiao"
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  year: "2014"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889854"
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  pages: "658-662"
  booktitle: "2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014"
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  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Phoneme-Based Speech Recognition via Fuzzy Neural Networks Modeling and Learning"
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  - name: "Nikola K. Kasabov"
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  - name: "Robert Kozma"
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  year: "1998"
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  - "rule-based"
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  journal: "Inf. Sci."
  volume: "110"
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- title: "Fuzzy Rule Extraction From Simple Evolving Connectionist Systems"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2004"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S146902680400132X"
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  journal: "International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications"
  volume: "4"
  number: "3"
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- title: "Fuzzy Neural Networks in a Palm Environment"
  author:
  - name: "Samuel Moyle"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
    link: "http://mike.watts.net.nz"
  year: "2002"
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  pages: "1008-1009"
  booktitle: "AAAI/IAAI"
  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Evolving Connectionist Systems can predict outbreaks of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2014"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889755"
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  pages: "646-650"
  booktitle: "2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014"
  publisher: "IEEE"
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- title: "Sleep learning and Max-Min aggregation of Evolving Connectionist Systems"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  year: "2016"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2016.7727764"
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  pages: "4325-4330"
  booktitle: "2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2016, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 24-29, 2016"
  publisher: "IEEE"
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  kind: "inproceedings"
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- title: "Using artificial neural networks to determine the relative contribution of abiotic factors influencing the establishment of insect pest species"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Susan P. Worner"
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  year: "2008"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.06.004"
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  journal: "Ecological Informatics"
  volume: "3"
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- title: "IEEE CIS Social Media: Have You Joined Our Online Community? [Society Briefs]"
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  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
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  - name: "Dongrui Wu"
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  - name: "Pablo A. Estévez"
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  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2011.2177020"
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  journal: "IEEE Comp. Int. Mag."
  volume: "7"
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- title: "Using Multi-Layer Perceptrons to predict the presence of jellyfish of the genus Physalia at New Zealand beaches"
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  year: "2008"
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  pages: "1170-1175"
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2008, part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2008, Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008"
  publisher: "IEEE"
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- title: "A Decade of Kasabov s Evolving Connectionist Systems: A Review"
  author:
  - name: "Michael J. Watts"
    link: "http://mike.watts.net.nz"
  year: "2009"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2008.2012254"
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2008.2012254"
    dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/tsmc/Watts09"
  tags:
  - "reviewing"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Watts09"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A"
  volume: "39"
  number: "3"
  pages: "253-269"
  kind: "article"
  key: "Watts09"