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Models of Bitmap Generation: A Systematic Approach to Bitmap Compression.

Authors :
Bookstein, Abraham
Klein, Shmuel T.
Source :
Information Processing and Management. Nov-Dec 1992 28(6):735-748.
Publication Year :
1992

Abstract

Presents new methods for compressing bit matrices in large information retrieval systems which exploit possible correlations between rows of words and columns of documents. Three encoding methods are tested and compared--Shannon-Fano, arithmetic, and Huffman--and an appendix discusses binomial coefficients. (20 references) (LRW)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0306-4573
Volume :
28
Issue :
6
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
Information Processing and Management
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ453319
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research<br />Speeches/Meeting Papers