Almost Orthogonal Arrays: Search Three Ways

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Hauptverfasser: Martínez, Luis, Merino, María, Montoya, Juan Manuel, Tonelli-Cueto, Josué
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author Martínez, Luis
Merino, María
Montoya, Juan Manuel
Tonelli-Cueto, Josué
author_facet Martínez, Luis
Merino, María
Montoya, Juan Manuel
Tonelli-Cueto, Josué
contents Orthogonal arrays play a fundamental role in many applications. However, constructing orthogonal arrays with the required parameters for an application usually is extremely difficult and, sometimes, even impossible. Hence there is an increasing need for a relaxation of orthogonal arrays to allow a wider flexibility. The latter has lead to various types of arrays under the name of ``nearly-orthogonal arrays'', and less often ``almost orthogonal arrays''. In this paper, we explore how to find almost orthogonal arrays three ways: using integer programming, local search meta-heuristics and algebraic methods. We compare all our search results with the ones existing in the literature, and we show that they are competitive, improving some of the existing arrays for many non-orthogonality measures. All our found almost orthogonal arrays are available at a public repository.
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spellingShingle Almost Orthogonal Arrays: Search Three Ways
Martínez, Luis
Merino, María
Montoya, Juan Manuel
Tonelli-Cueto, Josué
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Optimization and Control
05B15, 62K15, 05-08, 90C10, 90C59, 05E14
Orthogonal arrays play a fundamental role in many applications. However, constructing orthogonal arrays with the required parameters for an application usually is extremely difficult and, sometimes, even impossible. Hence there is an increasing need for a relaxation of orthogonal arrays to allow a wider flexibility. The latter has lead to various types of arrays under the name of ``nearly-orthogonal arrays'', and less often ``almost orthogonal arrays''. In this paper, we explore how to find almost orthogonal arrays three ways: using integer programming, local search meta-heuristics and algebraic methods. We compare all our search results with the ones existing in the literature, and we show that they are competitive, improving some of the existing arrays for many non-orthogonality measures. All our found almost orthogonal arrays are available at a public repository.
title Almost Orthogonal Arrays: Search Three Ways
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Optimization and Control
05B15, 62K15, 05-08, 90C10, 90C59, 05E14
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19516