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- Creators: Colbourn, Charles
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Covering subsequences with sets of permutations arises in many applications, including event-sequence testing. Given a set of subsequences to cover, one is often interested in knowing the fewest number of permutations required to cover each subsequence, and in finding an explicit construction of such a set of permutations that has size close to or equal to the minimum possible. The construction of such permutation coverings has proven to be computationally difficult. While many examples for permutations of small length have been found, and strong asymptotic behavior is known, there are few explicit constructions for permutations of intermediate lengths. Most of these are generated from scratch using greedy algorithms. We explore a different approach here. Starting with a set of permutations with the desired coverage properties, we compute local changes to individual permutations that retain the total coverage of the set. By choosing these local changes so as to make one permutation less "essential" in maintaining the coverage of the set, our method attempts to make a permutation completely non-essential, so it can be removed without sacrificing total coverage. We develop a post-optimization method to do this and present results on sequence covering arrays and other types of permutation covering problems demonstrating that it is surprisingly effective.
ContributorsMurray, Patrick Charles (Author) / Colbourn, Charles (Thesis director) / Czygrinow, Andrzej (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Physics (Contributor)
Created2014-12
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When designing screening experiments for many factors, two problems quickly arise. The first is that testing all the different combinations of the factors and interactions creates an experiment that is too large to conduct in a practical amount of time. One way this problem is solved is with a combinatorial design called a locating array (LA) which can efficiently identify the factors and interactions most influential on a response. The second problem is how to ensure that combinations that prohibit some particular tests are absent, a requirement that is common in real-world systems. This research proposes a solution to the second problem using constraint satisfaction.
ContributorsMiller, Vincent Joseph (Author) / Syrotiuk, Violet (Thesis director) / Colbourn, Charles (Committee member) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
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Error-correcting codes are fundamental in modern digital communication with applications in data storage and data transmission. Interest in a class of error-correcting codes called low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes has been growing since their recent rediscovery because of their low decoding complexity and their high-performance. However, practical applications have been limited due to the difficulty of finding good LDPC codes for practical parameters. This paper proposes an exhaustive and a randomized algorithm for constructing a family of LDPC codes with practical parameters whose matrix representations meet the following requirements: for each row in the LDPC code matrix there exists exactly one common nonzero element, each row has a minimum weight of one and must be odd, and each column has a weight of at least two. These conditions improve performance of the resulting codes and simplify conversion into codes for quantum systems. Both algorithms utilize a maximal clique algorithm to construct LDPC matrices from graphs whose vertices are possible rows within said matrices and are adjacent the first condition is true. While these algorithms were found to be suitable for small parameters, future work which optimizes the resulting codes for their expected applications could also dramatically increase performance of the algorithms themselves.
ContributorsShurman, Andrew Christian (Author) / Colbourn, Charles (Thesis director) / Bazzi, Rida (Committee member) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor) / Department of Physics (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-12