Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. A Model for Lossless Data Compression
3. Redundancy and Irrelevantness
   1. Losslessness
   2. Irrelevantness Criteria with Lossy Data Compression
   3. Irrelevantness Criteria with the Human Ear
   4. Irrelevantness Criteria with the Human Eye
4. Categorization
   1. Redundancy Criteria with Lossless Data Compression
   2. Strategy for Adaption of Redundancy
   3. Analysis and Synthesis
   4. Symmetry and Asymmetry of Analysis and Synthesis
   5. Coding
   6. Source Structure
5. Compression Algorithms
   1. Huffman
   2. Shannon-Fano
   3. Arithmetic Coding
   4. Markov Chains
   5. Codebook Algorithms
   6. Lempel-Ziv Storer-Szymanski
   7. Lempel-Ziv Welch
   8. Blaschkowski
   9. Hilberg
   10. Primitiv Algorithms
   11. Binary Image Data
6. Preprocessing Algorithms
   1. Distance Coding
   2. Difference Coding
7. Coding of the Output Streams
8. Grayscale and Colour Images
9. Audio Data
10. Vectorization
11. Attachment to the Operating System
12. Efficency and Speed
13. Parallelization
14. Reverse Asymmetric Data Compression
15. Summary
16. Literature