Foreword—Special Issue: Codes, Cryptology and Curves in honour of Ruud Pellikaan

Error-correcting codes and cryptology

Editorial : special issue in honour of Mark Blaug

Mark Blaug used to begin his history of economics course with an old Greek proverb: “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”. He would then say that one could characterise most thinkers in the history of economic thought as either a fox or a hedgehog. As a student, I found that this character-driven view illuminated past economists’ theories in a fresh way and br...

Special issue in honour of Dan S. Archdeacon: Guest Editorial

On February 15, 2015, Dan Archdeacon passed away at his home in Burlington, Vermont, after a short battle with cancer. Dan was born in Dayton, Ohio, on May 11, 1954. He spent his early years in Centerville, Ohio, and went on to earn a B.A. at Earlham College (1975), and a Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Ohio State University (1980). There, under the supervision of his advisor Henry Glover, he wrote...

Special Issue in Honour of Stan Azen: a Birthday Celebration

This special issue of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) is dedicated to Dr. Stanley Azen, founding Editor and continuing Editor-in-Chief of CSDA for the past 20 years. The Special Issue consists of peer review papers from the Editorial Board members of CSDA. Dr. Azen has made innumerable contributions to biomedical research during his career as a researcher and educator. As a de...

One-point Goppa Codes on Some Genus 3 Curves with Applications in Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

We investigate one-point algebraic geometric codes CL(D, G) associated to maximal curves recently characterized by Tafazolian and Torres given by the affine equation yl = f(x), where f(x) is a separable polynomial of degree r relatively prime to l. We mainly focus on the curve y4 = x3 +x and Picard curves given by the equations y3 = x4-x and y3 = x4 -1. As a result, we obtain exact value of min...