%0 Journal Article %T Lempel¨CZiv Data Compression on Parallel and£¿Distributed Systems %A Sergio De Agostino %J Algorithms %D 2011 %I MDPI AG %R 10.3390/a4030183 %X We present a survey of results concerning Lempel¨CZiv data compression on£¿parallel and distributed systems, starting from the theoretical approach to parallel time£¿complexity to conclude with the practical goal of designing distributed algorithms with low£¿communication cost. Storer¡¯s extension for image compression is also discussed. %K dictionary-based compression %K string factorization %K parallel complexity %K £¿distributed algorithm %K binary image %U http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/4/3/183