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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Nikos Armenatzoglou & Dimitris Papadias

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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. Dept. of Computer Science and Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Dimitris Papadias

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Armenatzoglou, N., Papadias, D. (2018). Geo-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_80714

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