Explicit Non-Adaptive Combinatorial Group Testing Schemes

dc.creatorPorat, Ely
dc.creatorRothschild, Amir
dc.date2007-12-22
dc.date2008-04-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:35:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:35:25Z
dc.descriptionGroup testing is a long studied problem in combinatorics: A small set of $r$ ill people should be identified out of the whole ($n$ people) by using only queries (tests) of the form "Does set X contain an ill human?". In this paper we provide an explicit construction of a testing scheme which is better (smaller) than any known explicit construction. This scheme has $\bigT{\min[r^2 \ln n,n]}$ tests which is as many as the best non-explicit schemes have. In our construction we use a fact that may have a value by its own right: Linear error-correction codes with parameters $[m,k,δm]_q$ meeting the Gilbert-Varshamov bound may be constructed quite efficiently, in $\bigT{q^km}$ time.
dc.description15 pages, accepted to ICALP 2008
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3876
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3876
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159826
dc.subjectData Structures and Algorithms
dc.titleExplicit Non-Adaptive Combinatorial Group Testing Schemes
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