Combinatorial Designs and Applications

Preface -- Contributors -- Minimum Matrix Representation of Closure Operations /F. E. Bennett and Lisheng Wu -- Existence of Kirkman Systems KS(2,4,v) Containing Kirkman Subsystems /T. Cai -- Studying Structures by Counting Geodesics /P. V. Ceccherini -- Existence of (v,8,1)-BIBD /Du Bieliang and Zhu Lie -- Partially Resolvable 3-(3,4,v:m) Partitions /Guo Haitao -- Symmetric Mendelsohn Triple Systems and Large Sets of Disjoint Mendelsohn Triple Systems /Kang Qing-de and Chang Yan-xun -- Simple BIB Designs and 3-Designs of Small Orders /Ku Tung-Hsin -- Characterizing Strongly Chordal Graphs by Using Minimal Relative Separators /Shaohan Ma and Julin Wu -- Constructions and Uses of Labeled Resolvable Designs /Shen Hao -- Existence of Simple Resolvable Block Designs with Block Size 4 /Shen Hao and Wu Minzhen -- A Special Class of Block Designs /Sun Shixin and Kang Tai -- One-Factorizations of Multigraphs /W. D. Wallis -- Hamilton Cycles in Cartesian Products /W. D. Wallis and Wang Zhi-Jian -- Nonexistence of Some Abelian Difference Sets /R. Wei -- Extraneous Multipliers of Abelian Difference Sets /Wan-di Wei, Shuhong Gao, and Qing Xiang -- Large Sets of KTS(V) /Wu Lisheng -- Hadamard Matrices /Ming-yuan Xia -- Finite Vector Spaces and Block Designs /Benfu Yang and Wan-di Wei -- Existence of G-Designs with IV(G)I = 6 /Yin Jianxing and Gong Busheng -- Existence of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with k = 7 and A= 1 /Zhang Yusen -- Four Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with k = 7 and A - 1 /Zhang Yusen and Yang Zhao -- Index.