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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
65
Citations
14059
World Ranking
2493
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Henri E. Bal is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a total of 33 publications covering various areas. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanical Engineering, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's research topics include privacy-preserving technologies in data, time series analysis and forecasting, parallel computing and optimization techniques, graph theory and algorithms, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, stochastic gradient optimization techniques, and complex systems with time series analysis.

Henri E. Bal's frequent publication venues encompass:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Software Practice and Experience
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Aart van Halteren
  • Corinne G. Allaart
  • Leonardos Pantiskas
  • Kees Verstoep
  • Mark Hoogendoorn

Recent publications by Henri E. Bal cover diverse topics and venues, such as:

  • Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Service Placement for Collaborative Edge Applications, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Vertical Split Learning - an exploration of predictive performance in medical and other use cases, 2022, 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
  • Understanding the complexities of Bluetooth for representing real-life social networks, 2020, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Inference serving with end-to-end latency SLOs over dynamic edge networks, 2024, Real-Time Systems

Henri E. Bal was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Programming languages for distributed computing systems

    Henri E. Bal;Jennifer G. Steiner;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Orca: a language for parallel programming of distributed systems

    H.E. Bal;M.F. Kaashoek;A.S. Tanenbaum

  • Cuckoo: A Computation Offloading Framework for Smartphones

    Roelof Kemp;Nicholas Palmer;Thilo Kielmann;Henri E. Bal

  • MagPIe: MPI's collective communication operations for clustered wide area systems

    Thilo Kielmann;Rutger F. H. Hofman;Henri E. Bal;Aske Plaat

  • Modern Compiler Design

    Dick Grune;Kees van Reeuwijk;Henri E. Bal;Ceriel J.H. Jacobs

  • An efficient reliable broadcast protocol

    M. Frans Kaashoek;A. S. Tanenbaum;S. F. Hummel

  • User-level network interface protocols

    R.A.F. Bhoedjang;T. Ruhl;H.E. Bal

  • Fast Measurement of LogP Parameters for Message Passing Platforms

    Thilo Kielmann;Henri E. Bal;Kees Verstoep

  • WebPIE: A Web-scale Parallel Inference Engine using MapReduce

    Jacopo Urbani;Spyros Kotoulas;Jason Maassen;Frank Van Harmelen

  • Ibis: a flexible and efficient Java-based Grid programming environment

    Rob V. van Nieuwpoort;Jason Maassen;Gosia Wrzesińska;Rutger F. H. Hofman

  • OWL reasoning with WebPIE: calculating the closure of 100 billion triples

    Jacopo Urbani;Spyros Kotoulas;Jason Maassen;Frank van Harmelen

  • Programming distributed systems

    Henri E. Bal

  • Performance evaluation of the Orca shared-object system

    Henri E. Bal;Raoul Bhoedjang;Rutger Hofman;Ceriel Jacobs

  • Distributed programming with shared data

    Henri E. Bal;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Efficient load balancing for wide-area divide-and-conquer applications

    Rob V. van Nieuwpoort;Thilo Kielmann;Henri E. Bal

  • An efficient implementation of Java's remote method invocation

    Jason Maassen;Rob van Nieuwpoort;Ronald Veldema;Henri E. Bal

  • A Medium-Scale Distributed System for Computer Science Research: Infrastructure for the Long Term

    Henri Bal;Dick Epema;Cees de Laat;Rob van Nieuwpoort

  • Approaches for integrating task and data parallelism

    H.E. Bal;M. Haines

  • Streaming the Web

    Alessandro Margara;Jacopo Urbani;Frank van Harmelen;Henri Bal

  • Parallel programming using shared objects and broadcasting

    A.S. Tannenbaum;M.F. Kaashoek;H.E. Bal

  • Orca: a language for parallel programming of distributed systems

    Henri E. Bal;M. Frans Kaashoek;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Thilo Kielmann
Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Koen Langendoen
Koen Langendoen Delft University of Technology
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank van Harmelen
Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wan Fokkink
Wan Fokkink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk A. Dijkstra
Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michel C. A. Klein
Michel C. A. Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jaap Heringa
Jaap Heringa Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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