Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Volume 9, 1996

Volume 9, Number 1, August 1996

Special Issue Containing Papers Presented at the Second Upper Michigan Combinatorics Workshop on Designs, Codes and Geometries

Vladimir D. Tonchev: Special Issue Containing Papers Presented at the Second Upper Michigan Combinatorics Workshop on Designs, Codes and Geometries - Preface. 5-6
E. F. Assmus Jr., Jennifer D. Key: Designs and Codes: An update. 7-27
Jürgen Bierbrauer, Stephen Black, Yves Edel: Some t-Homogeneous Sets of Permutations. 29-38
Jeffrey T. Bonn: Forcing Linearity on Greedy Codes. 39-49
Laurel L. Carpenter: Oval Designs in Desarguesian Projective Planes. 51-59
Charles J. Colbourn, Donald L. Kreher: Concerning Difference Matrices. 61-70
Hiroshi Kimura: Hadamard Matrices and Dihedral Groups. 71-77
Laura Monroe: Self-Orthogonal Greedy Codes. 79-83
Iosif Pinelis: On the Minimal Number of Even Submatrices of 0-1 Matrices. 85-93
Joseph A. Thas: k-Arcs, Hyperovals, Partial Flocks and Flocks. 95-104
Tran van Trung: A Generalization of a Theorem of Dehon for Simple t-Designs. 105-114
Judy L. Walker: A New Approach to the Main Conjecture on Algebraic-Geometric MDS Codes. 115-120

Stefka Buyuklieva, Vassil Y. Yorgov: Singly-Even Self-Dual Codes of Length 40. 131-141
Mario A. de Boer: Almost MDS Codes. 143-155
Chang-Seop Park, Gui Liang Feng, Kenneth K. Tzeng: The New Minimum Distance Bounds of Goppa Codes and Their Decoding. 157-176
Ron M. Roth: Spectral-Null Codes and Null Spaces of {Hadamard} Submatrices. 177-191
Alfred Scheerhorn: Dickson Polynomials, Completely Normal Polynomials and the Cyclic Module Structure of Specific Extensions of Finite Fields. 193-202
Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi: Stickelberger Codes. 203-213
Alexei N. Skorobogatov: On the Number of Representations of Matroids over Finite Fields. 215-226

Pier Vittorio Ceccherini: Giuseppe Tallini (1930--1995). 237-245
Giuseppe Tallini: Combinatorial Problems in Infinite Spaces. 247-249
Simon R. Blackburn: A Note on Sequences with the Shift and Add Property. 251-256
Tor Helleseth, P. Vijay Kumar, Abhijit G. Shanbhag: Codes with the Same Weight Distributions as the Goethals Codes and the Delsarte-Goethals Codes. 257-266
Wen-Ai Jackson, Keith M. Martin: Perfect Secret Sharing Schemes on Five Participants. 267-286
Wen-Ai Jackson, Keith M. Martin, Christine M. O'Keefe: A Construction for Multisecret Threshold Schemes. 287-303
Ueli M. Maurer, Yacov Yacobi: A Non-interactive Public-Key Distribution System. 305-316
Cécile Huybrechts, Antonio Pasini: On c^n-2.c^* Geometries of Order 2. 317-330