Information Compression
Manjunath Ramachandra · IGI Global eBooks · 2010
If a large data transactions are to happen in the supply chain over the web, the resources would be strained and lead to choking of the network apart from the increased transfer costs. To use the available resources over the internet effectively, the data is often compressed before transfer. This chapter provides the different methods and levels of data compression. A separate section is devoted for multimedia data compression where a certain losses in the data is tolerable during compression due to the limitations of human perception.