Fundamental Data Compression

Acknowledgements

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the many people who helped me in preparation of the book: David Hatter for initialising this project and encouragement; the reviewers Professors Maxime Crochemore, Bill Smyth, and an anonymous professional for valuable comments; the proof reader Dr Yuji Shen for helpful comments and suggestions; the editors and publishing team Alfred Waller, Melissa Read, Hayley Salter, Deb Puleston, and Jodi Cusack, for constant support.

I would also like to thank all the researchers working on original ideas of data compression for making this research area extremely interesting and challenging.