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mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--> <meta http-equiv=Content-Style-Type content="text/css"> <meta name=CocoaVersion content=1038.32> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=WordSection1> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext'>Preprint:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></b><![endif]>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, and A. <span class=SpellE>Roitershtein</span><span class=GramE>, <span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'>&nbsp;</span></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rastegar/xi4.pdf">Maximum occupation time of a transient excited random walk on Z</a></span></span>, submitted.<o:p></o:p></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=1> <li class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:5.25pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'>A. <span class=SpellE>Ghosh</span>, R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, and A. <span class=SpellE>Roitershtein</span>, <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rastegar/drwalk.pdf">A directionally reinforced random walk</a>, submitted.</li> <li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:5.25pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, A. <span class=SpellE>Roitershtein</span>, V. <span class=SpellE>Roytershteyn</span>, J. <span class=SpellE>Suh</span>, <span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Discrete-time <span class=SpellE>Langevin</span> motion of a particle in a <span class=SpellE>Gibbsian</span> random potential</span></span></a>,</span> Revised version is coming soon.</span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.25pt; margin-left:.5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.25pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Publication: </span></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=4 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>D. Hay, R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, A. <span class=SpellE>Roitereshtein</span>, <span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/mrec5.pdf"><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Multivariate linear recursions with Markov-dependent coefficients</span></span></a></span>, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>102,</span> 521 527, 2011.<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></b><![endif]><span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, </span></span><span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor: text2'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/cga2.pdf"><span class=s4><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Optimal Convergence Probability of <span class=SpellE>Univariate</span> Estimation of Distribution Algorithms</span></span></a></span></span><span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>, Evolutionary Computation, </span></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>19(2)</span><span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>, </span></span>225-248, <span class=s3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>2011.</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=6 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>A. Hariri, K. <span class=SpellE>Navi</span>, and R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/RNS1.pdf"><span class=GramE><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>A</span></span></span><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'> High Dynamic Range 3-Moduli Set with Efficient Reverse Converter</span></span></a>, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 55(4), 660-668, 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, and A. Hariri, <span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/cga.pdf"><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>A Step Forward in Studying the Compact Genetic Algorithm</span></span></a></span>, Evolutionary Computation, 14(3), 277-290, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, and A. Hariri, The Population based Incremental Learning Algorithm Converges to Local Optima, <span class=SpellE>Neurocomputing</span> (letters), 69(13-15), 1772-1775, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, M. R. <span class=SpellE>Meybodi</span>, and A. Hariri, A New Fine-Grained Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Cellular Learning Automata, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 3(2), 83-98, 2006.<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal>REU projects:</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>10.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp; </span></span></span></b><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>A. <span class=SpellE>Ghosh</span>, D. Hay, V. <span class=SpellE>Hirpara</span>, R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, A. <span class=SpellE>Roitershtein</span>, A. <span class=SpellE>Schulteis</span>, J. <span class=SpellE>Suh</span>, <span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor: text2'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/mrec7.pdf"><span class=s2><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Random linear recursions with dependent coefficients</span></span></a></span>, </span>Statistics &amp; Probability Letters, <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>80</span>, 1597-1605, 2010.<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (The paper is outcome of a <span class=GramE>Summer</span>' 09 REU project at ISU.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=11 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.25pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>T. <span class=SpellE>Pluta</span>, M. Temba, B. Wu, K. <span class=SpellE>Jungjaturapit</span>, R. <span class=SpellE>Rastegar</span>, A. <span class=SpellE>Roitershtein</span>, C. N. <span class=SpellE>Vidden</span>, <span style='color:#1F497D; mso-themecolor:text2'><a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Erastegar/reu10.pdf"><span class=s1><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Trading cookies in a gambler's ruin scenario</span></span></a></span> preprint (The paper is outcome of a Summer' 2010 REU project at ISU.)<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>