abbreviations used
ACM TODS ACM Transactions on Database Systems
BCS British Computer Society
BNCOD British National Conference on Databases
IEEE TKDE IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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