On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved, for a second time, the conference version of the Republican tax bill, clearing the way for Donald Trump to sign the legislation into law as soon as the relevant paperwork can be sent to the White House.
A conference version of this paper was published in [33].
We also correct some flaws of the conference version.
We note that a preliminary version of this study appeared, in conference version, in[19].
This work extends and improves the conference version [13] in four aspects.
An earlier and shorter conference version of this paper appeared in proceedings of IEEE ISWCS'08 [10].
This article is a significant extension from the conference version which is published in [16].
Note that the original Gamma code [15] paper is published in parallel with the conference version of this paper [31], while the refined Gamma codes [30] and L-chunked codes are published later than that of our conference version.
The work presented in this paper is an extension of our previous work reported in a conference version [20].
This paper is different from our original Globecom conference version of this paper [74] in three aspects.
Extensions to the conference version include: The experiments conducted on the recent TREC 2016 CDS task dataset.
