Optimality of Some Two-Associate-Class Partially Balanced Incomplete-Block Designs

Splitting balanced incomplete block designs

A New Family of Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Some Latin Square Design Properties

Non-Isomorphic Solutions of Some Balanced Incomplete Block Designs II

Some techniques are developed for constructing non-isomorphic solutions of symmetric (4t + 3,2t + 1, t) designs for suitable values of t and for (4t + 2, 8t + 2,4t + 1,2t + 1,2t) and (4t + 4, St + 6,4t + 3,2t + 2,2t + 1) designs. As an application, some non-isomorphic solutions of (19,9,4), (10,18, 9, 5, 4), and (12, 22, 11, 6, 5) designs are obtained. In [l] some other techniques were given fo...

Remarks on Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

Proof. Assume the hypothesis and the falsity of either conclusion. Construct matrix A of 2x + 2 rows and 4x+4 columns, with entries + 1 and — 1. The first column contains exclusively +1, and the second column — 1. Set up one-to-one correspondences between rows of A and elements of D ; between columns other than the first two of A and blocks of D. Enter +1 if the element is contained in the bloc...

Finding Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with Metaheuristics

This paper deals with the generation of balanced incomplete block designs (BIBD), a hard constrained combinatorial problem with multiple applications. This problem is here formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem (COP) whose solutions are binary matrices. Two different neighborhood structures are defined, based on bit-flipping and position-swapping. These are used within three metaheu...