Managing Gigabytes
Subtitle: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: May 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781558605701
Subjects: Data compression; Databases & data structures; Text processing (Computer scie; General; Data compression (Telecommunication); Text processing (Computer science); Information Storage & Retrieval; Digital Image Processing; Microcomputer Text Processing Software; Computers; Computers - Data Base Management; Document imaging systems; Computer Books: General; Digital techniques; Database Management - General; Programming - Software Development; Computers / Information Storage & Retrieval; Image processing; Data compression (Telecommunic
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Description: 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.