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Covers for functional independencies

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Janas, J.M. (1989). Covers for functional independencies. In: Demetrovics, J., Thalheim, B. (eds) MFDBS 89. MFDBS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51251-9_17

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