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The complexity of querying indefinite data about linearly ordered domains

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                PODS '92: Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
                July 1992
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                ISBN:0897915194
                DOI:10.1145/137097

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