(algorithm)
Definition: An adaptive Huffman coding scheme. Typically this produces codings the same length as or shorter than static Huffman coding. In the worst case, this uses one more bit per codeword.
Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
adaptive Huffman coding.
Aggregate child (... is a part of or used in me.)
full binary tree.
See also algorithm FGK.
Author: PEB
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Design and analysis of dynamic Huffman codes, Journal of the ACM 34(4):825-845, October 1987.
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, ALGORITHM 673: dynamic Huffman coding, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 15(2):158-167, June 1989.
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 14 August 2008. (accessed TODAY)
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