Construction of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs Construcción de Diseños de Bloques Incompletos Balanceados

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Eduardo Piza Volio
Esteban Segura Ugalde

Abstract

 In this review article, we study balanced incomplete block designs (BIBDs) and test a heuristic algorithm for generating these designs. We first provide a brief theoretical exposition of BIBDs,
the mathematical properties of which are of extreme importance due to their deep theoretical applications in non-Euclidean geometry (construction of finite projective and finite affine planes) and in
combinatorics. We use a simulated annealing algorithm to find BIBDs of moderate size. In particular,
we discover a new, unpublished solution for the BIBD(16,56,21,6,7), for which only one other solution
was known, even though the theoretical existence of more solutions was certain. Our algorithms were
compared with other heuristic methods used in previous research and consistently outperformed all
other heuristic methods.

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Piza Volio , E., & Segura Ugalde , E. (2026). Construction of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs: Construcción de Diseños de Bloques Incompletos Balanceados. Revista Digital: Matemática, Educación E Internet, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.18845/rdmei.v27i1.8771
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Mathematics and algorithms