Preface. List of Contributors. An introduction to algebraic codes (V.S. Pless, W.C. Huffman, R.A. Brualdi). Coding constructions (V.S. Pless). Self-dual codes (E.M. Rains, N.J.A. Sloane). Bounds on the size of linear codes (A.E. Brouwer). An updated table of the best binary codes known (S. Litsyn). Universal bounds for codes and designs (V.I. Levenshtein). Complexity issues in coding theory (A. Barg). Covering radius (R.A. Brualdi, S. Litsyn, V.S. Pless). Quadratic residue codes and divisibility (H.N. Ward). Algebraic geometry codes (T. Hoholdt, J.H. van Lint, R. Pellikaan). Open problems on cyclic codes (P. Charpin). The algebraic theory of concolutional codes (R.J. McEliece). Author index. Subject index.
