A formal treatment of lossless data compression algorithms

<p>Since its inception, data compression has been practised mostly as an experimental science. Although this thesis continues that trend to some extent, its main emphasis is on formal derivations of compression algorithms and proofs of their correctness. Such a mathematical approach has not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stratford, B
Other Authors: Bird, R
Format: Thesis
Published: 2005