In black box evaluation and optimization, Latin hypercube designs play an important role. When dealing with multiple black box functions, the need often arises to construct designs for all black boxes jointly, instead of individually. These so-called nested designs consist of two different...

The problem of finding a maximin Latin hypercube design in two dimensions can be described as positioning n non-attacking rooks on an n x n chessboard such that the minimal distance between pairs of rooks is maximized. Maximin Latin hypercube designs are important for the approximation and...