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What is Data Structures

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A collection of methods for storing and organizing sets of data in order to facilitate access to them. More formally data structures are concise implementations of abstract data types, where an abstract data type is a set of objects together with a collection of operations on the elements of the set.
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Indexing and Compressing Text
Ioannis Kouris (University of Patras, Greece), Christos Makris (University of Patras, Greece), Evangelos Theodoridis (University of Patras, Greece), and Athanasios Tsakalidis (University of Patras, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch173
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Indexing Techniques for Spatiotemporal Databases
A collection of methods for storing and organizing sets of data in order to facilitate access to them. More formally data structures are concise implementations of abstract data types, where an abstract data type is a set of objects together with a collection of operations on the elements of the set.
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Indexing Textual Information
A collection of methods for storing and organizing sets of data in order to facilitate access to them. More formally, data structures are concise implementations of abstract data types, where an abstract data type is a set of objects together with a collection of operations on the elements of the set.
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