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  1. Datometry Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

    Mohamed A. Soliman

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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. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Ihab Ilyas

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Soliman, M.A. (2018). Uncertain Top-k Queries. 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_80686

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