Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images - Couverture rigide

Witten, Ian H.; Moffat, Alistair; Bell, Timothy C.

 
9781558605701: Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1558605703 ISBN 13 : 9781558605701
Editeur : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1558605703
ISBN 13 
9781558605701
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
560
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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