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Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems table of contents

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Pages: 34 - 43

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-996-3

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Surajit Chaudhuri

Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA

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SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory

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