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Entire volume: Liu, L., & Özsu, M. T. (Eds.). (2018). Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9 Contribution from the volume:
Hastings, J. T., & Hill, L. L. (2018). Georeferencing. In L. Liu & M. T. Özsu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Systems (pp. 1616–1620). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_181
