By
Ian Witten, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Timothy Bell, University of Canterbury, U.K.
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.
