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  1. Burago D., Burago Y.D., and Ivanov S. A Course in Metric Geometry. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2001.

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  3. Zezula P., Amato G., Dohnal V., and Batko M. Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.

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  1. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavel Zezula, Michal Batko & Vlastislav Dohnal

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Zezula, P., Batko, M., Dohnal, V. (2009). Metric Space. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_218

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