Discrete Mathematics, Volume 279

Volume 279, Number 1-3, March 2004

• Frank E. Bennett, Charles J. Colbourn, Ruizhong Wei, Jianxing Yin:
  Preface. 1-2
  
• Guest Editors. 3-
• R. Julian R. Abel, Iliya Bluskov, Malcolm Greig:
  Balanced incomplete block designs with block size 9: part II. 5-32
  
• Ian Anderson, Donald A. Preece:
  Narcissistic half-and-half power-sequence terraces for Z_n with n=pq^t. 33-60
  
• Frank E. Bennett, Yanxun Chang, Gennian Ge, Malcolm Greig:
  Existence of (v, {5, w^star}, 1)-PBDs. 61-105
  
• Marco Buratti, Alberto Del Fra:
  Cyclic Hamiltonian cycle systems of the complete graph. 107-119
  
• H. Cao, Y. Tang:
  On Kirkman packing designs KPD({3, 4}, v). 121-133
  
• Yanxun Chang, Jianxing Yin:
  Further results on optimal optical orthogonal codes with weight 4. 135-151
  
• Kejun Chen, Zhenfu Cao, Dianhua Wu:
  Existence of APAV(q, k) with q a prime power =5(mod 8) and k=1(mod 4). 153-161
  
• Wensong Chu, Charles J. Colbourn:
  Optimal (n, 4, 2)-OOC of small orders. 163-172
  
• Beiliang Du:
  Existence of optimal strong partially balanced designs with block size five. 173-190
  
• Kai-Tai Fang, Gennian Ge, Min-Qian Liu, Hong Qin:
  Combinatorial constructions for optimal supersaturated designs. 191-202
  
• Norman J. Finizio:
  One frame and several new infinite families of Z-cyclic whist designs. 203-213
  
• Norman J. Finizio, Brian J. Travers:
  Z-cyclic generalized whist frames and Z-cyclic generalized whist tournaments. 215-223
  
• Gennian Ge, Alan C. H. Ling:
  A survey on resolvable group divisible designs with block size four. 225-245
  
• Gennian Ge, Rolf S. Rees:
  On group-divisible designs with block size four and group-type 6^u_m1. 247-265
  
• Gennian Ge, Rolf S. Wei:
  HGDDs with block size four. 267-276
  
• Henk D. L. Hollmann, Qing Xiang:
  Kloosterman sum identities over F₂m. 277-286
  
• Qingde Kang, Yanfang Zhang, Huijuan Zuo:
  Packings and coverings of lambdaK_v by k-circuits with one chord. 287-315
  
• Hadi Kharaghani, Behruz Tayfeh-Rezaie:
  Some new orthogonal designs in orders 32 and 40. 317-324
  
• Selda Küçükçifçi, Charles C. Lindner:
  Perfect hexagon triple systems. 325-335
  
• C. David Leach, Christopher A. Rodger:
  Hamilton decompositions of complete graphs with a 3-factor leave. 337-344
  
• Jian-guo Lei:
  On large sets of Kirkman triple systems and 3-wise balanced design. 345-354
  
• Alan C. H. Ling, Pak Ching Li, G. H. John van Rees:
  Splitting systems and separating systems. 355-368
  
• Meinard Müller, Masakazu Jimbo:
  Consecutive positive detectable matrices and group testing for consecutive positives. 369-381
  
• Wakaha Ogata, Kaoru Kurosawa, Douglas R. Stinson, Hajime Saido:
  New combinatorial designs and their applications to authentication codes and secret sharing schemes. 383-405
  
• Gaetano Quattrocchi, Eric Mendelsohn:
  Minimum embedding of balanced P₄-designs into 5-cycle systems. 407-421
  
• Jia-Yu Shao, Ling-Zhi Ren:
  Some properties of matrices with signed null spaces. 423-435
  
• Hao Shen, Renwang Su, Dameng Deng:
  Existence of incomplete resolvable minimum coverings of pairs by triples. 437-462
  
• Douglas R. Stinson, Ruizhong Wei:
  Generalized cover-free families. 463-477
  
• Yunqing Xu, Yanxun Chang:
  On the spectrum of r-self-orthogonal Latin squares. 479-498