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Compression of clustered inverted files

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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1978 (MFCS 1978)

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One way to save memory space in inverted file organizations is to map each address list to a bit-vector and compress it by a suitable compression technique. Eight such techniques are discussed for nonuniformly distributed bit-vectors in this study. Occurrences of clusters with high 1-bit densities are simulated using a n-state bit-vector generating process. Experiments with a real life file are also reported.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    O. Nevalainen, M. Jakobsson & R. Berg

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  1. O. Nevalainen
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Nevalainen, O., Jakobsson, M., Berg, R. (1978). Compression of clustered inverted files. In: Winkowski, J. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1978. MFCS 1978. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08921-7_87

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