relation: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/379/ title: Genetically-designed arbitrary length almost difference sets creator: Oliveri, Giacomo creator: Donelli, Massimo creator: Massa, Andrea subject: TU Technical Reports and Publications description: Almost difference sets (ADSs) have important applications in cryptography, coding theory, and antenna array thinning. A new approach is proposed to derive ADSs of arbitrary lengths. Such a technique recasts the ADS design as a combinatorial optimisation problem successively solved by means of a suitable binary genetic algorithm. New ADSs are derived to assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach. "This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in Electronics Letters and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library". date: 2011-01 type: Technical Report type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/379/1/DISI-11-078-R184.pdf identifier: Oliveri, Giacomo and Donelli, Massimo and Massa, Andrea (2011) Genetically-designed arbitrary length almost difference sets. [Technical Report] (Unpublished)