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  1. University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Felix Schwagereit

  2. Institute for Web Science and Technologies – WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

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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. Distributed Inf. Sys Lab., Inst. for Core Computing Science (IIF), EPFL-IC-IIF-LSIR, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

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Schwagereit, F., Staab, S. (2018). Social Networks. 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_1226

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