Some more 5-GDDs and optimal (v, 5, 1)-packings

Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 132-141

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

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

(v,5,1) packings; 5 GDDs

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542364459     PISSN: 10638539     EISSN: 15206610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcd.10062     Document Type: Article

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