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.
- ISBN13 9781558605701
- Publish Date 11 May 1999 (first published 2 June 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 560
- Language English