A survey on resolvable group divisible designs with block size four

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 279, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 225-245

  Ge, Gennian ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

4 frames; Group divisible designs; Incomplete resolvable group divisible designs; Resolvable group divisible designs

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

4-FRAMES; GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS (GDD); INCOMPLETE RESOLVABLE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS; RESOLVABLE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS (RGDD);

SET THEORY;

EID: 1342329726     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-365X(03)00274-7     Document Type: Article

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