Maria Daniela Ferrero Associate Professor of Mathematics Office: Math/CS 553 Phone: 512-245-3743 Fax: 512-245-3425 Email: dferrero@txstate.edu Home Page

Research Interests: Graph theory and its applicatins.

Dr. Ferrero received her Ph.D. from Politechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) in 1999.

Selected Publications

• Durdan, Simon F.; Ferrero, Daniela; Harary, Frank; On the evolution of square-cell animals. Chance 18 (2005), no. 3, 16--19.
• Balbuena, C.; Marcote, X.; Ferrero, D.; Diameter vulnerability of iterated line digraphs in terms of the girth. Networks 45 (2005), no. 2, 49--54.
• Chung, Hannah; Ferrero, Daniela; Taylor, Alan; Warshauer, Jeremy; Diameter of path graphs. J. Discrete Math. Sci. Cryptogr. 7 (2003), no. 1, 49--54.
• Ferrero, D.; Connectivity of path graphs. Acta Math. Univ. Comenian. (N.S.) 72 (2003), no. 1, 59--66.
• Balbuena, Camino; Ferrero, Daniela; Edge-connectivity and super edge-connectivity of $P\sb 2$-path graphs. Discrete Math. 269 (2003), no. 1-3, 13--20.
• Ferrero, Daniela; Harary, Frank; Edge sums of de Bruijn interconnection networks. Int. J. Comput. Math. 80 (2003), no. 7, 819--824.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. Partial line directed hypergraphs. Networks 39, Issue 2, (2002) 61-67.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. Connectivity and fault-tolerance of hyperdigraphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics 117 (2002) 15--26.
• Ferrero, Daniela; Edge connectivity of iterated $P\sb 3$-path graphs. Proceedings of the Thirty-third Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Boca Raton, FL, 2002).
• C. Balbuena and D. Ferrero. Connectivity and Super-Connectivity of P_2 path graphs. Submitted to Discrete Mathematics, 2001.
• C. Balbuena, D. Ferrero, X. Marcote and I. Pelayo. Alegraic properties of a digraph and its line digraph. Submitted to Journal of Interconnection Networks, 2001.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. New bounds on the diameter vulnerability of iterated line digraphs. Discrete Mathematics 233/1-3 (2001) 103--113.
• D. Ferrero and F. Harary. Edge sums of deBruijn interconnection networks. Submitted to Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 2001.
• D. Ferrero. Disjoint paths of bounded length in s-geodetic digraphs. Submitted to Discrete Mathematics, 2000.
• C. Balbuena and D. Ferrero. Diameter vulnerability of line digraphs in terms of the girth. Submitted to Discrete Mathematics, 2000.
• T-Y. Ho, T-Y. Sung and D. Ferrero. Diameter variability of hypercubes and cyclic networks. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2000.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. Disjoint paths of bounded length in large generalized cycles. Discrete Mathematics 197-198 (1999) 285--298.
• D. Ferrero. Introduction to interconnection network models. Publicaciones Matematicas del Uruguay, 99/25, (1999).
• D. Ferrero. Connectivity in Directed Hypergraphs. Connectivity in directed hypergraphs. Information Technology (1999), 637--641.
• D. Ferrero. A Technique for the (d, s, N)-Bus Network Problem. EEE Proceedings of the XIX International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'99.Chile; 1999.
• D. Ferrero. Maximally Connected Hyperdigraphs. Proc. Conf. in Honor to Paul Erdos and his Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary; 1999.
• C. Balbuena and D. Ferrero. Conditional diameter vulnerability of iterated line digraphs. I Jornades de Matematica Discreta y Algorismica, Barcelona; 1998.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. New bounds on the diameter-vulnerability of iterated line-digraphs. I Jornades de Matematica Discreta y Algorismica, Barcelona; 1998.
• D. Ferrero, R. Gonzalo and M. Soriano. Some Properties of Non Linear Feedback Shift Registers with Maximum Period. Proc. Sixth International Conference on Telecommunications Systems. Nashville, Tennessee; 1998. MSWord
• D. Ferrero, M. Soriano and R. Gonzalo. NLFSR de periodo maximo. Proc. V Reunion Espanola de Criptografia y Seguridad de la Informacion. Malaga, Spain; 1998.
• D. Ferrero and C. Padro. Fault Tolerant Routings in Large Generalized Cycles. IEEE Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'97.Chile; 1997.
• D. Ferrero and M. Soriano. Non Linear Feedback Shift Registers over Zn. Research Conference On Algebra and Discrete Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society. San Feliu de Guixols, Spain; 1997.