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Alex Verstak

Virginia Tech
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Cited by 875

On the shoulders of giants: The growing impact of older articles

A Verstak, A Acharya, H Suzuki, S Henderson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of older scholarly articles. We attempt
to answer four questions. First, how often are older articles cited and how has this changed …

Dynamic data structures for a direct search algorithm

…, N Ramakrishnan, CA Shaffer, A Verstak… - Computational …, 2002 - Springer
The DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) algorithm of Jones, Perttunen, and Stuckman (Journal
of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 157–181, 1993), a variant of …

Rise of the rest: The growing impact of non-elite journals

A Acharya, A Verstak, H Suzuki, S Henderson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of non-elite journals. We attempt to
answer two questions. First, what fraction of the top-cited articles are published in non-elite …

In-building wideband multipath characteristics at 2.5 and 60 GHz

…, TS Rappaport, K Bae, A Verstak… - … IEEE 56th Vehicular …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper contains measured data for 2.5 and 60 GHz in-building partition loss. Path loss
measurements were recorded using a broadband sliding correlator channel sounder which …

Globally optimal transmitter placement for indoor wireless communication systems

J He, AA Verstak, LT Watson… - IEEE Transactions …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A global optimization technique is applied to solve the optimal transmitter placement problem
for indoor wireless systems. An efficient pattern search algorithm - DIviding RECTangles (…

Design and implementation of a massively parallel version of DIRECT

J He, A Verstak, LT Watson, M Sosonkina - … Optimization and Applications, 2008 - Springer
This paper describes several massively parallel implementations for a global search algorithm
DIRECT. Two parallel schemes take different approaches to address DIRECT’s design …

Performance modeling and analysis of a massively parallel DIRECT—part 1

J He, A Verstak, LT Watson… - … International Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Modeling and analysis techniques are used to investigate the performance of a massively
parallel version of DIRECT, a global search algorithm widely used in multidisciplinary design …

Performance modeling and analysis of a massively parallel DIRECT—Part 2

J He, A Verstak, M Sosonkina… - … International Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Modeling and analysis techniques are used to investigate the performance of a massively
parallel version of DIRECT, a global search algorithm widely used in multidisciplinary design …

[PDF][PDF] Global optimization of transmitter placement in wireless communication systems

J He, A Verstak, LT Watson, TS Rappaport… - Proc. High …, 2002 - people.cs.vt.edu
Global Optimization of Transmitter Placement in Wireless Communication Systems Page 1
Global Optimization of Transmitter Placement in Wireless Communication Systems J. He∗, A …

[PDF][PDF] S4W: Globally Optimized Design of Wireless Communications Systems.

A Verstak, J He, LT Watson, N Ramakrishnan… - ipdps, 2002 - Citeseer
In this paper, a global optimization technique is applied to solve the optimal transmitter
placement problem for indoor wireless systems. An efficient pattern search algorithm—DIRECT (…