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Bridwell, S.A., Miller, H.J. (2018). Location-Based Services. 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_494

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