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A New Approach to Meta-Evaluation Using Fuzzy Logic

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Letichevsky, A.C., Vellasco, M., Tanscheit, R., Souza, R.C. (2007). A New Approach to Meta-Evaluation Using Fuzzy Logic. In: Nedjah, N., Mourelle, L.d.M., Borges, M.N., Almeida, N.N.d. (eds) Intelligent Educational Machines. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44921-8_7

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