Resolvable maximum packings with quadruples

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-302

  Ge, Gennian ^a   Lam, C W H ^b   Ling, Alan C H ^c   Shen, Hao ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

4 frames; Resolvable packings; RGDDs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

4-FRAMES; RESOLVABLE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGN (RGDD); RESOLVABLE PACKINGS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 17444394520     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10623-003-6739-6     Document Type: Article

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