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Authors and Affiliations

  1. CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Esteban Zimányi

  2. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christine Parent

  3. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stefano Spaccapietra

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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, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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Zimányi, E., Parent, C., Spaccapietra, S. (2018). Semantic Modeling for Geographic Information Systems. 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_336

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