Constructing uniform designs: A heuristic integer programming method

  • Authors:
  • Yong-Dao Zhou;Kai-Tai Fang;Jian-Hui Ning

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China;BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, 519085, China and Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;College of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, the wrap-around L"2-discrepancy (WD) of asymmetrical design is represented as a quadratic form, thus the problem of constructing a uniform design becomes a quadratic integer programming problem. By the theory of optimization, some theoretic properties are obtained. Algorithms for constructing uniform designs are then studied. When the number of runs n is smaller than the number of all level-combinations m, the construction problem can be transferred to a zero-one quadratic integer programming problem, and an efficient algorithm based on the simulated annealing is proposed. When n=m, another algorithm is proposed. Empirical study shows that when n is large, the proposed algorithms can generate designs with lower WD compared to many existing methods. Moreover, these algorithms are suitable for constructing both symmetrical and asymmetrical designs.