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Mixed covering arrays are natural generalizations of covering arrays that are motivated by applications in software and network testing. A strength three mixed covering array C is a k×n array with the cells of row i is filled up with elements from \(\mathbb Z_{g_{i}}\) and having the property that in each 3×n subarray, every 3×1 column appears at least once. In this article, we consider a generalization of strength-3 mixed covering arrays that allows a 3-uniform hypergraph structure which specifies the choices of 3×n subarrays in C. The number of columns in such array is called its size . Given a weighted 3-uniform hypergraph H , a strength three mixed covering array on H with minimum size is called optimal . We give upper and lower bounds on the size of strength three mixed covering arrays on 3-uniform hypergraphs based on hypergraph homomorphisms. We construct optimal strength-3 mixed covering arrays on 3-uniform hypertrees, interval, and cycle hypergraphs.
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Yasmeen, Maity, S. (2012). Mixed Covering Arrays on Hypergraphs. In: Mathew, J., Patra, P., Pradhan, D.K., Kuttyamma, A.J. (eds) Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems. ICECCS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 305. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32112-2_39
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