Cocyclic simplex codes of type /spl alpha/ over Z/sub 4/ and Z/sub 2//sup s/

Over the past decade, cocycles have been used to construct Hadamard and generalized Hadamard matrices. This, in turn, has led to the construction of codes-self-dual and others. Here we explore these ideas further to construct cocyclic complex and Butson-Hadamard matrices, and subsequently we use the matrices to construct simplex codes of type /spl alpha/ over Z(4) and Z(2/sup s/), respectively.