Construction of high-dimensional high-separation distance designs

Abstract

Space-filling designs that possess high separation distance are useful for computer experiments. We propose a novel method to construct high-dimensional high-separation distance designs. The construction involves taking the Kronecker product of sub-Hadamard matrices and rotation. In addition to possessing better separation distance than most existing types of space-filling designs, our newly proposed designs enjoy orthogonality and projection uniformity and are more flexible in the numbers of runs and factors than that from most algebraic constructions. From numerical results, such designs are excellent in Gaussian process emulation of high-dimensional computer experiments. An R package on design construction is available online.