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  1. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Sheelagh Carpendale

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Daniel A. Keim

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Carpendale, S. (2018). Distortion Techniques. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1127

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