"An authoritative reference to the whole area of source coding algorithms, Compression and Coding Algorithms will be a primary resource for both researchers and software engineers. The book also will be of interest to people in the broader area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

Practitioners, especially those who work in the software development and independent consulting industries creating compression software or other application systems in which compression plays a part, will benefit from the techniques that are described."--BOOK JACKET.