Systems, Man & Cybernetics - October 2016 - 2

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George Cybenko, Co-EIC, IEEE
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Social Systems
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Social Systems
Cybernetics
Vladimir Marik, Chair, Vice President,
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Jun Wang, EIC, IEEE Transactions on
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Hideyuki Takagi
Zdenek Zdrahal
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Ellen J. Bass, EIC, IEEE Transactions on
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and Engineering
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C.L. Philip Chen, EIC, IEEE Transactions
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Maria Pia Fanti
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George Cybenko, Co-EIC, IEEE
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Social Systems
Eunice E. Santos, Co-EIC, IEEE
Transactions on Computational
Social Systems
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on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics:
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David Kaber, EIC, IEEE Transactions on
Human-Machine Systems
Jun Wang, EIC, IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics
George Cybenko and Eunice E. Santos,
EICs, IEEE Transactions on
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