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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We develop a method for construction of arrays which are nearly orthogonal, in the sense that each column is orthogonal to a large proportion of the other columns, and which are convertible to fully orthogonal arrays via a mapping of the symbols in each column to a possibly smaller set of symbols. These arrays can be useful in computer experiments as designs which accommodate a large number of factors and enjoy attractive space-filling properties. Our construction allows both the mappable nearly orthogonal array and the consequent fully orthogonal array to be either symmetric or asymmetric. Resolvable orthogonal arrays play a key role in the construction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]