The Burrows-Wheeler Algorithm
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The Burrows-Wheeler Algorithm was published in the year 1994 by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in the research report “A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm”. This research report is based on an unpublished work by David Wheeler from the year 1983. The Burrows-Wheeler Algorithm will used for data compression. The algorithm consists of several stages and these stages are performed successively. The input and output of each stages are blocks of arbitrary size, but the size must be specified at the beginning of the whole compression process. With the decompression of the algorithm the data which compressed by the algorithm can be returned to their original data. Meanwhile, there are countless different versions of the algorithm. In the further course we will be discuss about the original algorithm from the research report by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler from the year 1994.
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