The second volume of this work contains Parts 2 and 3 of the "Handbook of Coding Theory". Part 2, "Connections", is devoted to connections between coding theory and other branches of mathematics and computer science. Part 3, "Applications", deals with a variety of applications for coding.
Volume I Preface vii List of Contributors xiii Part 1: Algebraic Coding An introduction to algebraic codes 3(138) V.S. Pless W.C. Huffman R.A. Brualdi Coding constructions 141(36) V.S. Pless Self-dual codes 177(118) E.M. Rains N.J.A. Sloane Bounds on the size of linear codes 295(168) A.E. Brouwer An updated table of the best binary codes known 463(36) S. Litsyn Universal bounds for codes and designs 499(150) V.I. Levenshtein Complexity issues in coding theory 649(106) A. Barg Covering radius 755(72) R.A. Brualdi S. Litsyn V.S. Pless Quadratic residue codes and divisibility 827(44) H.N. Ward Algebraic geometry codes 871(92) T. Hoholdt J.H. van Lint R. Pellikaan Open problems on cyclic codes 963(102) P. Charpin The algebraic theory of convolutional codes 1065(76) R.J. McEliece Author Index I-1 Subject Index I-27 Volume II Preface vii List of Contributors xiii Part 2: Connections Codes and number theory 1141(54) I. Honkala A. Tietavainen Coding theory at work in cryptology and vice versa 1195(34) H.C.A. van Tilborg Codes and designs 1229(40) V.D. Tonchev Polynomial codes and finite geometries 1269(76) E.F. Assmus J.D. Key Codes and groups 1345(96) W.C. Huffman Codes and association schemes: Basic properties of association schemes relevant to coding 1441(128) P. Camion Part 3: Applications Decoding of cyclic codes and codes on curves 1569(66) R.E. Blahut Constrained systems and coding for recording channels 1635(130) B.H. Marcus R.M. Roth P.H. Siegel Sequences with low correlation 1765(90) T. Helleseth P. Vijay Kumar Array codes 1855(56) M. Blaum P.G. Farrell H.C.A. van Tilborg Concatenated codes and their multilevel generalizations 1911(78) I. Dumer Trellis structure of codes 1989(130) A. Vardy Deep space applications 2119 S. Wicker Author Index I-1 Subject Index I-27
