Combinatorial Group Testing And Its Applications

by Ding-zhu Du, Frank Kwang-ming Hwang

Overview

Group testing was first proposed for blood tests, but soon found its way to many industrial applications. Combinatorial group testing studies the combinatorial aspect of the problem and is particularly related to many topics in combinatorics, computer science and operations research. Recently, the idea of combinatorial group testing has been applied to experimental designs, coding, multiaccess computer communication, clone library screening and other fields. This book is the first attempt to cover the theory and applications of combinatorial group testing in one place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789810212933
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/01/1993
Series:	Series On Applied Mathematics , #3
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.28(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.77(d)

Editorial Reviews

Du (computer science, City U. of Hong Kong) and Hwant (applied mathematics, National Chiao Tung U., Taiwan) assemble the theories and applications of a technique for testing blood on a large scale economically. They say it was developed about 50 years ago, but went dormant when the immediate need passed, and think it might be useful again now what with the AIDS epidemic and all. They mention no date for the first edition; not only have they updated results and corrected errors here, they have also incorporated the recent extensive application of non-adaptive group testing to the clone library screening problem. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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