Algorithm BSTW

The Algorithm BSTW is a data compression algorithm, named after its designers, Bentley, Sleator, Tarjan and Wei in 1986. BSTW is a dictionary-based algorithm that uses a move-to-front transform to keep recently-seen dictionary entries at the front of the dictionary. Dictionary references are then encoded using any of a number of encoding methods, usually Elias delta coding or Elias gamma coding.

References

* [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/pubs/DC-Sec5.html#Sec_5.2 Algorithm BSTW]