Combinatorial Group Testing and Its Applications

Du (computer science, City U. of Hong Kong) and Hwant (applied mathematics, National Chiao Tung U., Taiwan) assemble the theories and applications of a technique for testing blood on a large scale economically. They say it was developed about 50 years ago, but went dormant when the immediate need passed, and think it might be useful again now what with the AIDS epidemic and all. They mention no date for the first edition; not only have they updated results and corrected errors here, they have also incorporated the recent extensive application of non-adaptive group testing to the clone library screening problem. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR