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    Benoît Depaire & Niels Martin

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Depaire, B., Martin, N. (2019). Data-Driven Process Simulation. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77525-8_102

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