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Encyclopaedia of DesignTheory

Table of contents | Glossary | Topics | Bibliography | History

Introduction

This Encyclopaedia is part of the documentation of the DesignTheory.org project, which is currently under development. It will eventually be a web-based design theory resource server. The Encyclopaedia of Design Theory is edited by Peter J. Cameron, of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London.

Needless to say, this documentation is also under construction (and probably always will be). Currently we have over 350 glossary entries and 20 topic essays, as well as partial descriptions of 5 classes of designs, a bibliography, and a history page.

Available now: version 2.0 of the External Representation of Block Designs (XML specification and documentation). The library also contains a preprint of a paper describing the project and its wider context.

You may also be interested in the Web page Design Resources, which at present is independent of the DTRS project.

Notes

The aim of this encyclopaedia is to be a reference for concepts, not a repository of the most up-to-the minute existence results for designs.

Accordingly, we welcome comments on the contents, ease of use, or anything else; these should be sent to the editor.

The editor would be very pleased to receive submissions, which will be acknowledged in the Encyclopaedia if they are used. We keep a list of contributors.

Organisation

In addition to the descriptions of various types of designs (see below), there is a glossary, a collection of essays on selected topics, a bibliography, and a small list of expository examples, as well as a page devoted to the history of design theory, and a page of links to topics on experimental design.

Selected external Web pages are also indexed here, labelled with this icon: EXTERNAL. (External references will open in a new window. Of course, we are not responsible for the availability or the content of external web pages.)

There are many types of designs. For each type, we will give information under the following twelve headings:

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Table of contents | Glossary | Topics | Bibliography | History

Peter J. Cameron
1 December 2004