Publications

[1] J. He, "Design and Evaluation of a Data-distributed Massively Parallel Implementation of a Global Optimization Algorithm DIRECT", Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007.

[2] J. He, "Global Optimization of Transmitter Placement for Indoor Wireless Communication Systems", M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2002.

[3]. J. He, M. Sosonkina, C.A. Shaffer, J.J. Tyson, L.T. Watson, and J.W. Zwolak, "A hierarchical parallel scheme for global parameter estimation in systems biology", in Proc. 18th Internat. Parallel & Distributed Processing Symp., CD-ROM, IEEE Computer Soc., Los Alamitos, CA, 2004.

[4] J. He, M. Sosonkina, C.A. Shaffer, J.J. Tyson, L.T. Watson, and J.W. Zwolak, "A hierarchical parallel scheme for a global search algorithm", in Proc. High Performance Computing Symposium, Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, A. Tentner (Ed.), Society for Modeling and Simulation Interna- tional, Arlington, VA, pp. 43-50, 2004.

[5] J. He, M. Sosonkina, L.T. Watson, A. Verstak, and J.W. Zwolak, "Data-distributed parallelism with dynamic task allocation for a global search algorithm", in Proc. High Performance Computing Sym- posium 2005, M. Parashar and L. Watson (eds.), Soc. for Modeling and Simulation Internat., San Diego, CA, pp. 164-172, 2005.

[6] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, T.S. Rappaport, C.R. Anderson, N. Ramakrishnan, C.A. Shaffer, W.H. Tranter, K. Bae, and J. Jiang, "Global optimization of transmitter placement in wireless communication systems", in Proc. High Performance Computing Symposium, A. Tentner (ed.), Soc. for Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, CA, pp. 328-333, 2002.

[7] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, and M. Sosonkina, "Performance studies of a parallel global search algorithm on System X", in 2006 Spring Simulation Multiconf., High Performance Computing Symp., J.A. Hamilton, Jr., R.MacDonald, andM.J. Chinni (eds.), Soc. forModeling and Simulation Internat., San Diego, CA, pp. 209-214, 2006.

[8] J. He, A. Verstak, M. Sosonkina, and L.T. Watson, "Performance modeling and analysis of a massively parallel DIRECT: Part 2", Technical Report TR-07-02, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007, to appear in International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

[9] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, and M. Sosonkina, "Performance modeling and analysis of a massively parallel DIRECT: Part 1", Technical Report TR-07-01, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007, to appear in International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications.

[10] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, and M. Sosonkina, "Design and implementation of a massively parallel version of DIREC", Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 40, pp. 217-245, 2008.

[11] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, C.A. Stinson, N. Ramakrishnan, C.A. Shaffer, T.S. Rappaport, C.R. Anderson, K. Bae, J. Jiang, and W.H. Tranter, "Globally optimal transmitter placement for indoor wireless communication systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 1906-1911, 2004.

[12] J. He, A. Verstak, L.T. Watson, C.A. Stinson, N. Ramakrishnan, C.A. Shaffer, T.S. Rappaport, C.R. Anderson, K. Bae, J. Jiang, and W.H. Tranter, "S4W: Globally optimized design of wireless communication systems", Computer Science Technical Report TR-02-16, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2002.

[13] J. He, L.T. Watson, N. Ramakrishnan, C.A. Shaffer, A. Verstak, J. Jiang, K. Bae, and W.H. Tranter, "Dynamic data structures for a direct search algorithm", Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 5-25, 2002.

[14] J. He, L.T. Watson, and M. Sosonkina, "Algorithm XXX: VTDIRECT95: Serial and parallel codes for the global optimization algorithm DIRECT", Technical Report TR-07-33, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007, submitted to ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software.