New Z-cyclic triplewhist frames and triplewhist tournament designs

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1649-1673

  Abel, R Julian R ^a   Finizio, Norman J ^b   Ge, Gennian ^c   Greig, Malcolm ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Greig Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclic difference matrices; Near resolvable BIBDs; Resolvable BIBDs; Triplewhist designs; Whist tournaments; Z cyclic designs; Z cyclic frames; Z cyclic triplewhist frames

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; LOGIC DESIGN; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CYCLIC DIFFERENCE MATRICES; NEAR RESOLVABLE BIBDS; RESOLVABLE BIBDS; TRIPLEWHIST DESIGNS; WHIST TOURNAMENTS; Z-CYCLIC DESIGNS; Z-CYCLIC FRAMES; Z-CYCLIC TRIPLEWHIST FRAMES;

SET THEORY;

EID: 33646922846     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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