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    Christopher M. Gold

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    Peter R. Remmele

  3. Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

    Thomas Roos

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Gold, C.M., Remmele, P.R., Roos, T. (1997). Voronoi methods in GIS. In: van Kreveld, M., Nievergelt, J., Roos, T., Widmayer, P. (eds) Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems. CISM School 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63818-0_2

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