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    Maria Zemankova

  2. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences Ul, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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We would like to thank all of the authors who submitted papers to this special issue. Due to space and time constraints, some of them could not be included in this issue, but will appear in a future issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

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Zemankova, M., Kacprzyk, J. Itroduction: The roles of fuzzy logic and management of uncertainty in building intelligent information systems. J Intell Inf Syst 2, 311–317 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961658

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