Designs on the Web - SOLD OUT

• Activity Number: 127
• Type: Luncheons
• Date/Time: Monday, August 9, 2004 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Author(s): John P. Morgan*+ and Leonard Soicher
• Companies: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Queen Mary, University of London
• Keywords: block design ; optimal design ; web resource

Abstract

Where do you go to find a good design for a comparitive experiment? Textbooks contain limited tables of standard designs, most commonly BIBDs and less frequently lists of lattices, PBIBDs, and members of generalized cyclic families. While the last 30 years have seen tremendous progress in finding optimal designs, corresponding tables, when they exist, are scattered throughout the literature. Design search software is likewise limited, with inability to allow a multicriteria approach to design selection and no guarantee that an optimal design will be produced. In 2001 the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awarded a project titled, "A Web-based Resource for Design Theory." From this award is growing the Design Theory Resource Server (DTRS) for combinatorial and statistical designs at www.designtheory.org. DTRS is developing (i) a database of designs, including serving as a repository of designs as they continue to be discovered, (ii) software for constructing and manipulating designs, and investigating their statistical and combinatorial properties, (iii) documentation which will explain the types of design, their uses, and more.