Henri Bal - Publications#

Bal is the author of more than 150 papers., many of which have over 100 citations.
His h-index (based on Google Scholar) is 47

The work by Romein and Bal (2003) has been selected in Pickover's math book as one of 250 milestones in the history of mathematics. This paper describes how they solved the 3000 year old board game Awari by computing the outcome of all board positions.

10 major publications:

Grune, D., van Reeuwijk, K., Bal, H.E., Jacobs, C.J.H., Langendoen, K. Modern Compiler Design, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2012.

Jacopo Urbani, Spyros Kotoulas, Jason Maassen, Frank van Harmelen, and Henri Bal. WebPIE: A Web-scale parallel inference engine using MapReduce, Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 10, Elsevier, 2012

W. de Bruijn, H. Bos and H. Bal. Application-tailored I/O with Streamline. ACM Transactions On Computer Systems (TOCS), 29(2):Article 6, 2011.

H.E. Bal, J. Maassen, R. van Nieuwpoort, N. Drost, R. Kemp, T. van Kessel, N. Palmer, G. Wrzesinska, T. Kielmann, K. van Reeuwijk, F. Seinstra, C. Jacobs, and K. Verstoep. Real-World Distributed Computing with Ibis. IEEE Computer, 43(8):54-62, 2010.

R.V. van Nieuwpoort, G. Wrzesinska, C.J.H. Jacobs and H.E. Bal. Satin: a High-Level and Efficient Grid Programming Model. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 32(3): Article 9, 2010.

Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Gosia Wrzesinska, Rutger Hofman, Ceriel Jacobs, Thilo Kielmann, Henri E. Bal. Ibis: a Flexible and Efficient Java-based Grid Programming Environment, Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 17, No. 7-8, pp. 1079-1107, June/July 2005.

K. Verstoep, R.A.F. Bhoedjang, T. Ruhl, H.E. Bal, and R.F.H. Hofman. Cluster Communication Protocols for Parallel-Programming Systems. ACM Transactions On Computer Systems (TOCS), 22(3):281-325, 2004.

J.W. Romein, H.E. Bal. Solving the Game of Awari using Parallel Retrograde Analysis. IEEE Computer, 38(10):26-33, 2003.

John W. Romein, Henri E. Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat. A Performance Analysis of Transposition-Table-Driven Work Scheduling in Distributed Search, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 447-459, May 2002.

J. Maassen, R. van Nieuwpoort, R. Veldema , H.E. Bal, T. Kielmann, C. Jacobs and R. Hofman. Efficient Java RMI for Parallel Programming, ACM. Trans. on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 747 - 775, Nov. 2001.