Error Detection and Correction in the International Standard Book Number

Kamaku, Peter Waweru

dc.contributor.author	Kamaku, Peter Waweru
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-18T06:35:23Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-18T06:35:23Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05-18
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1617
dc.description	A thesis submitted in fulﬁllment for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pure Mathematics in the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology 2013	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a code that uniquely identiﬁes all books published internationally. Currently ISBN-13 has been in use since the year 2007 as an improvement to ISBN-10. In this research the error detection and correction capabilities of both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 codes against the total number of code words that can be generated is analysed. It is shown that both codes have major weaknesses as far as these properties are concerned. The ISBN -16 code then is designed and analysed as an improvement to the existing code. Comparison to the existing code is done and a conversion tool for the existing ISBN -13 to ISBN -16 developed. It is shown that the ISBN -16 code surpasses the existing code in error detection and correction capabilities and the overall dictionary.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Dr. Bernard Kivunge KU, Kenya Dr. Jotham Raymond Akanga JKUAT, Kenya	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	PhD Pure Mathematics;2013
dc.title	Error Detection and Correction in the International Standard Book Number	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US