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Table Compression

2003; Buchsbaum, Fowler, Giancarlo

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Buchsbaum, A., Giancarlo, R. (2008). Table Compression. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30162-4_418

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