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  1. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Torben Bach Pedersen

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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. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Torben Bach Pedersen

  2. DISI, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Rizzi

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Pedersen, T.B. (2018). Multidimensional Modeling. 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_229

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