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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Patrick Eugster

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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. Dept. of Elec. and Comp.Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    H. - Arno Jacobsen

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Eugster, P. (2018). Interface. 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_1176

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