Managing Gigabytes

Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition
2. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-55860-570-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 194 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1038 g

In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading--an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors' own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images, and textual images. mg's source code is freely available on the Web.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Witten, Ian H

Moffat, Alistair

Bell, Timothy C

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE

1. OVERVIEW

2. TEXT COMPRESSION
3. INDEXING

4. QUERYING

5. INDEX CONSTRUCTION

6. IMAGE COMPRESSION

7. TEXTUAL IMAGES
8. MIXED TEXT AND IMAGES

9. IMPLEMENTATION

10. THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION

A. GUIDE TO THE MG SYSTEM

B. GUIDE TO THE NZDL

REFERENCES

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Witten, Ian H
Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography.