Papers published by Prof. John A. Trono: Saint Michael’s College
Publications
“The NCAA CFP Committee Goes to Monte Carlo …”, Math Horizons, Volume 29, #2, November, 2021.
“An Accurate Linear Model for Predicting the College Football Playoff Committee’s Selections”, SMC Tech Report (SMC-2020-CS-001), 2020. PDF
“Objectively Modelling the College Football Playoff Committee’s Selections”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, 2019: published by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. PDF
”CS1 Programming Assignments That Can Help to Increase Awareness of Cybersecurity Issues”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 34, #2, December, 2018.
”Efficiently Searching for a Solution to a Kirkman Packing Design Problem”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 33, #2, December, 2017.
“Applying Occam’s Razor to the Prediction of the Final NCAA Men’s Basketball Poll”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, 2017: published by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. PDF
“Is it Possible to Objectively Generate the Rankings Produced by the College Football Playoff Committee”, SMC Tech Report (SMC-2016-CS-001), 2016. PDF
“Predicting the NCAA Men’s Postseason Basketball Poll More Accurately”, SMC Tech Report (SMC-2015-CS-001); 2015 (coauthored with SMC colleague Dr. Phil Yates). This was presented at EURO 2015, which is the premier European conference for Operational Research and Management Science. PDF
“Transactions: They’re Not Just For Banking Any More”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 30, #5, May, 2015.
“How Predictable is the Overall Voting Pattern in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Post Tournament Poll?”, Chance (published by Springer-Verlag, and supervised by the American Statistical Association), Volume 27, Issue 2, 2014 (coauthored with SMC colleague: Dr. Phil Yates). Preprint PDF copy
“Increasing Student Confidence throughout the Computer Science Curriculum”, Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), Work-in-Progress (WIP) Workshop, July 8-9, 2013.
“Evaluating Regional Balance in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament using the Tournament Selection Ratio”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, June 5-7, 2013. PDF
“A Longitudinal Study of Regional Bracket Equality in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament”, SMC Tech Report (SMC-2013-CS-001), 2013.
“Updated MPHF Weights for Ada 2012”, Ada Letters (published by the Association for Computing Machinery: ACM), Volume 32, #1, April 2012.
“Security Enhancements for the Additive Cryptosystem”, the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 27, Issue 3, January, 2012.
“Rating/Ranking Teams through the (Spanning) Trees”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, June, 2011. PDF
“Rating/Ranking Systems, Post-Season Bowl Games, and ‘The Spread’ “, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP), Volume 6, Issue 3, Article 6, 2010.
“On k-minimum and m-minimum edge-magic injections of graphs”, Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), January, 2010, volume 310, issue 1, pages 56-69. (Coauthored with Dr. John P. McSorley, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University.)
“A Simple Encryption Strategy Based on Addition,” the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 24, #6, June, 2009.
“Discovering More Properties of the Fibonacci Sequence”, Proceedings of the 15th Annual CCSC Central Plains regional conference, Volume 24, #5, May, 2009.
“A Discovery-based Capstone Experience”, Proceedings of the 14th Annual CCSC Central Plains regional conference, Volume 23, #4, April, 2008.
“An Effective Nonlinear Rewards-Based Ranking System”, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS): Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP), Volume 3, Issue 2, Article 3, 2007.
“Optimal Table Lookup for Reserved Words in Ada”, Ada Letters, Volume 26, #1, April 2006.
“Search for a Shortest K-Element Sidon Set in Parallel”, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), June 2005 (with Andrew J. Bays who graduated in December, 2004).
“Can You Beat the Odds(makers)?”, Math Horizons (published by the Mathematical Association of America), April 2005.
“Overtake & Feedback Follow-Up”, Dr. Dobb’s Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmers (#360), May, 2004.
“Applying the Overtake & Feedback Algorithm”, Dr. Dobb’s Journal (#357), February, 2004.
“An Extended Programming Assignment (Using Java)”, PDPTA – 2001, June 2001.
“Arithmetical Croquet”, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference, Volume 16, #4, April 2001. (This was recognized as the third best paper by the conference’s committee.)
“March Mathness: An Analysis of a Nonstandard Basketball Pool”, Math Horizons, February, 2001 (with Aaron Archer, Richard Cleary, and Robin Lock).
“Comments on ‘Tagged Semaphores’”, ACM Operating Systems Review, Volume 34, #4, October 2000.
“Further Comments on ‘A Correct and Unrestrictive Implementation of General Semaphores’”, ACM Operating Systems Review, Volume 34, #3, July 2000 (with William E. Taylor – undergraduate coauthor).
“A Quantitative Examination of Computer Architecture Evolution”, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference, Volume 14, #4, May 1999.
“A Comparison of Three Strategies for Computing Letter Oriented, Minimal Perfect Hashing Functions”, ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Notices, Volume 30, #4, April 1995.
“Taxman Revisited”, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Bulletin, Volume 26, #4, December 1994.
“A New Exercise in Concurrency”, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 26, #3, September 1994.
“An Undergraduate Project to Compute Minimal Perfect Hashing Functions”, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 24, #3, September 1992.
“Average Case Analysis When Merging Two Ordered Lists of Different Length”, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 23, #3, September 1991.
“A Deterministic Prediction Model for the American Game of Football”, ACM Simuletter, Volume 19, #1, March 1988.
“NSCS H/MI Implementation Considerations”, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 82-59473-11, October 1, 1982 (with James P. Jenal).
“A Performance Evaluation of NSCS (1NS1)”, Bell Laboratories Memorandum for File, 59473-820805.01MF, August 5, 1982 (with Arthur T. Sullivan).