Collected here are papers that were presented at the DIMACS workshop (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ). Among the topics discussed are universal data compres... » 

Collected here are papers that were presented at the DIMACS workshop (Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ). Among the topics discussed are universal data compression, graph theoretical ideas in the construction of codes and lattices, decoding algorithms, and computation of capacity in various communications schemes. «