One of the most complete references on Hamming distances and coding in general was written by Hamming [roman1980coding]
Lee distances have been of interest since 1994, mainly due to the following paper which discusses Lee codes and their relation [hammons1994z]
The Lee distance is been found useful in other contexts [bose1995lee]
A CSP model is presented in [rowsym03]
[rowsym03]
Constraints for Breaking More Row and Column Symmetries
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2003, 318-332,
2003
[bose1995lee]
Lee distance and topological properties of k-ary n-cubes
Computers, IEEE Transactions on 44(8), 1021–1030,
1995
[hammons1994z]
The Z 4-linearity of Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals, and related codes
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 40(2), 301–319,
1994
[roman1980coding]
Coding and information theory
Springer
1980