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Design Resources on the Web

We need your help. Please email me (p.j.cameron(at)qmul.ac.uk) to suggest websites which should be included in our list.

At Queen Mary:
DesignTheory.org, a web-based server for design theory R. A. Bailey's Semi-Latin squares page (Definition; Uses; Constructions; Optimality; Bibliography; Meetings) R. A. Bailey's Neighbour-balanced designs page 100 years of design theory in Biometrika: an annotated bibliography by A. C. Atkinson and R. A. Bailey Leonard Soicher's Partial Spreads page Leonard Soicher's SOMAs page Further SOMA update by John Arhin GRAPE homepage (GAP share package by Leonard Soicher) Peter Dobcsányi's home page, including the LOWX program Lecture notes on the Web: an annotated list Peter Cameron's Permutation groups resources Homepages of Peter Cameron's books Combinatorics Study Group (including CSG Notes) Publications in Pure Mathematics and Statistics Seminars in Design of Experiments Conference listings Queen Mary Mathematics Research Centre Computer Algebra for Differential Equations and Pure Algebra (CADEPA) Queen Mary Maths Notes ATLAS of Finite Group Representations, by R. A. Wilson et al.
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Elsewhere:
General resources World Combinatorial Exchange Combinatorics at MathArchive Combinatorics at Yahoo Mathematics Combinatorics at the Open Directory The Combinatorics Net Combinatorics preprints on Mathematics ArXiv Combinatorics section of the Mathematics Subject Classification Dynamic Surveys from the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics Designs and Configurations Designs and Configurations section of the Mathematics Subject Classification StatLib---Designs Archive, archive of designs and programs, "as is" from contributors Jeff Dinitz's Design Links Matroids page Bill Cherowitzo's Hyperoval Page and Flocks of Cones Ted Spence's files: classifications of various designs, strongly regular graphs, Hadamard matrices, etc. Gordon Royle's Combinatorial Catalogues: lists of various graphs, geometries, designs, groups, etc. Brendan McKay's Combinatorial Data: graphs, trees, Greechie diagrams, more to come ... Thomas Zaslavsky's Matroid Miscellany Neil Sloane's Library of Orthogonal Arrays (including a Table of Hadamard Matrices) Jennie Seberry's libraries of Hadamard and other matrices, and designs of various types Small association schemes or homogeneous coherent configurations, by A. Hanaki and I. Miyamoto Tables of groups, graphs, and maps obtained using Peter Dobcsányi's "LOWX" program Caps by Yves Edel Golomb rulers by James B. Shearer The Witt Design by Ashay Dharwadker (complete list of blocks and C++ program) Fractional factorial design generator by Marko Boon La Jolla Covering Repository (table of covering designs) The Uniform Design Website Geometry, pages on incidence geometry by Hauke Klein The Hadamard maximal determinant problem by Will Orrick and Bruce Solomon Kishore Sinha's tables of partially balanced designs updating Clatworthy's tables Warren Kuhfeld's Orthogonal Arrays site Graph Theory Daniel P. Sanders' Graph Theory Resources The Hamiltonian Page by Gregory Gutin and Pablo Moscato Dan Archdeacon's Problems in topological graph theory Vasek Chvátal's Perfect Graphs pages (problems, bibliography, homepages) Tables of regular graphs by Markus Meringer Spectral Graph Theory Home Page, by Roberto dos Santos Bartholo Jr. and Paulo Oswaldo Boaventura Netto Other combinatorial resources Neil Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Stas Busygin's NP-completeness page Combinatorial Object Server by The Wizard of Cos cut-the-knot (interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles) by Alexander Bogomolny Combinatorics problems from the Mathematical Olympiads Holger Danielsson's Magic Squares page Steven H. Cullinane's Diamond Theory page (hidden symmetries of Plato's diamond and generalisations) Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (research reports, surveys and books in computational complexity) David Eppstein's Combinatorial Game Theory page
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Homepages of books:
Designs and their Codes, by E. F. Assmus Jr and J. D. Key, Cambridge University Press 1992 (preface and table of contents) Association Schemes: Designed Experiments, Algebra and Combinatorics, by R. A. Bailey Digraphs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, by Jørgen Bang-Jensen and Gregory Gutin, Springer-Verlag, 2000 Combinatorics, by Peter J. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1994 Permutation Groups, by Peter J. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1999 CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Design, edited by C. J. Colbourn and J. H. Dinitz, CRC Press, 1996 Graph Theory, by Reinhard Diestel, Springer-Verlag, 2000 (download the book!) Making, Breaking Codes: An Introduction to Cryptology, by Paul Garrett, Prentice-Hall, 2000 (contents only) Algebraic Graph Theory, by Chris Godsil and Gordon Royle, Springer Verlag, New York, 2001. Graph Theory and its Applications, by Jonathan Gross and Jay Yellen, CRC press, 1998 Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications, by A. S. Hedayat, N. J. A. Sloane and John Stufken, Springer-Verlag, 1999 Projective Geometries over Finite Fields, by J. W. P. Hirschfeld, Oxford University Press, 1998 Graph Coloring Problems, by Tommy R. Jensen and Bjarne Toft, Wiley Interscience, 1995 Extremal Combinatorics, by S. Jukna, Springer-Verlag, 2001 Combinatorial Algorithms: Generation, Enumeration and Search, by Donald L. Kreher and Douglas Stinson, CRC Press, 1998 Topics in Intersection Graph Theory, by Terry A. McKee and F. R. McMorris, SIAM, 1999 Graphs on Surfaces, by Bojan Mohar and Carsten Thomassen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 Computational Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Combinatorica, by Sriram Pemmaraju and Steven Skiena, Cambridge University Press The Algorithm Design Manual, by Steven S. Skiena, Telos/Springer-Verlag. generatingfunctionology, by Herb Wilf, Academic Press, 1994 (download the book!) Introduction to Complexity Classes, by Chee K. Yap, Oxford University Press, to appear (download some chapters by FTP)
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Electronic journals:
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics INTEGERS (Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory) Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire Journal of Integer Sequences Geometry and Topology Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Electronic Journal of Probability, and Electronic Communications in Probability The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications Forum Geometricorum (classical Euclidean geometry and related areas) Other electronic journals
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Computer packages:
GAP homepage (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) DESIGN (GAP share package for designs (uses GRAPE) GRAPE (GAP share package for graphs, geometries, groups) Fundamental, a program for computing fundamental groups and covers (uses GAP and GRAPE) Nauty, Brendan McKay's famous graph isomorphism and automorphism program Overview of MAGMA (Computational algebra system for algebra, number theory and geometry) GENSTAT page (statistical analysis package) from VSN International DISCRETA (a program to construct t-designs with prescribed automorphism group) Herb Wilf's EastWest Maple package for generating and counting subsets, partitions and permutations Bill Kocay's Groups and Graphs for Mac or Windows Stanford GraphBase, large collection of algorithms and datasets available by FTP Schur, a package for Lie groups and symmetric polynomials by Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc. LOWX, a low-index subgroup program by Peter Dobcsányi Combinatorica, a Mathematica package for combinatorics and graph theory. The Stony Brook Algorithms Repository, a comprehensive collection of algorithm implementations for fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms. Pydesign and Pynauty, two Python packages for manipulating designs and their automorphism groups (part of the Design Theory website
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Institutions:
National and international British Combinatorial Committee Homepage and Bulletin Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (Inc.) Japanese Center for Combinatorics and its Applications CADCOM (Committee for the Advancement of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics) London Mathematical Society Royal Statistical Society European Mathematical Society Institute of Mathematical Statistics The International Biometric Society / British Region Local Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand EIDMA (Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications), Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics, London School of Economics, UK Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, University of Queensland, Australia DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science), Rutgers University, USA Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Other mathematical resources:
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics   Penn State University's list of Mathematics web sites around the world Mathematics WWW Virtual Library MathArchive Yahoo Mathematics Open Directory Mathematics Intute Mathematics Gateway MathSearch (searches mathematics pages) MathWeb (Web directory from the AMS) The Geometry Net The Mathematical Atlas (a gateway to modern mathematics) MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive Free refereed journals on the Web Symmetric presentations Number Theory Web The Probability Web Erdös Number Project
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Peter J. Cameron
p.j.cameron(AT)qmul.ac.uk
5 September 2006.