On m-Near-Resolvable Block Designs and q-ary Constant-Weight Codes.

We introduce m-near-resolvable block designs. We establish a correspondence between such block designs and a subclass of (optimal equidistant) q-ary constant-weight codes meeting the Johnson bound. We present constructions of m-near-resolvable block designs, in particular based on Steiner systems and super-simple t-designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]