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Managing gigabytes

Alistair Moffat

1999519 pagesabout 8–12 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Elsevier Science & Technology Books · ENGISBN 9780080510880
  • 1999Morgan Kaufmann · 519 pages · ENGISBN 9781558605701

"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."--Jacket.

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