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Preface. List of Contributors. An introduction to algebraic codes (V.S. Pless, W.C. Huffman, R.A. Brualdi). Coding constructions (V.S. Pless). Self-dual codes (E.M. Rains, N.J.A. Sloane). Bounds on the size of linear codes (A.E. Brouwer). An updated table of the best binary codes known (S. Litsyn). Universal bounds for codes and designs (V.I. Levenshtein). Complexity issues in coding theory (A. Barg). Covering radius (R.A. Brualdi, S. Litsyn, V.S. Pless). Quadratic residue codes and divisibility (H.N. Ward). Algebraic geometry codes (T. Hoholdt, J.H. van Lint, R. Pellikaan). Open problems on cyclic codes (P. Charpin). The algebraic theory of concolutional codes (R.J. McEliece). Author index. Subject index.
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Preface. List of Contributors. Codes and number theories (I. Honkala, A. Tietavainen). Coding theory at work in cryptology and vice versa (H.C.A. van Tilborg). Codes and designs (V.D. Tonchev). Ploynomial codes and finite geometries (E.F. Assmus Jr., J.D. Key). Codes and groups (W.C. Huffman). Codes and association schemes: Basic properties of association schemes relevant to coding (P. Camion). Decoding of cyclic codes and codes on curves (R.E. Blahur). Contrained systems and coding for recording channels (B.H. Marcus, R.M. Roth, P.H. Siegel). Sequences with low correlation (T. Helleseth, P. Vijay Kumar). Array codes (M. Blaum, P.G. Farrell, H.C.A. van Tilborg). Concatenated codes and their multilevel generalizations (I. Dumer). Trellis structure of codes (A. Vardy). Deep space applications (S. Wicker). Author index. Subject index.