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  1. University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Alex Delis

  2. University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    Vassilis J. Tsotras

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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. University of California-Riverside, Riverside, MA, USA

    Vassilis J. Tsotras

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Delis, A., Tsotras, V.J. (2018). Indexed Sequential Access Method. 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_738

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