H.E. Bal

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Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Associate Editor FGCS | 2008-02-01 - present
VU Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Lid Editorial Board | 2014-01-01 - present

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Prof.dr.ir. Henri Bal heads a research group on High Performance Distributed Computing at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He studies parallel and distributed programming systems in combination with real-world applications. His group produced programming environments such as the Orca language, MagPIe, Ibis, Satin, JavaGAT, and SWAN. His current work focuses on programming environments for GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) and distributed sensor systems based on smartphones and Internet-of-Things.

Henri Bal is the winner of the Euro-Par 2014 Achievement Award, member of the Informatics Section of the Academia Europaea, scientific director of the ASCI research school, and coordinator of the DAS infrastructure. He is past program chair of the HPDC and CCGrid conferences and author of three books, including Modern Compiler Design. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit (1989) and a MSc in Mathematics from Delft University of Technology (1982).

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Research Output 1985 2019

124 Conference contribution
78 Article
28 PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU
5 Chapter
17 More

A Smartphone-based Infrastructure for Decentralized Partnership Formation

Bozdog, N. V., 2019, 132 p.

Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU › Academic

Open Access

File

User acceptance of real-life personalized coaching in social fitness apps

Simoski, B., Klein, M. C. A., Van Halteren, A. T. & Bal, H., 20 May 2019, Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 198-207 10 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Application programs

Smartphones

Experiments

A Jungle Computing approach to common image source identification in large collections of images

van Werkhoven, B., Hijma, P., Jacobs, C. J. H., Maassen, J., Geradts, Z. J. M. H. & Bal, H. E., Dec 2018, In : Digital Investigation. 27, p. 3-16 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Crime

Smartphones

Personal computers

Cameras

offense

Integrating person-to-person social support in smartphone apps for promoting physical activity

Simoski, B., Klein, M., Van Halteren, A. T. & Bal, H., 2018, HEALTHINF 2018 - 11th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2018. SciTePress, Vol. 5. p. 497-504 8 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

File

Smartphones

Application programs

Social Support

Health hazards

Telemedicine

Large scale stream analytics using a resource-constrained edge

Bharath Das, R., Di Bernardo, G. & Bal, H., 26 Sep 2018, Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2018 - Part of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 135-139 5 p. 8473389

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Resources

Processing

Throughput

Sensor

Sensors

Activities 2000 2001

6 Lecture / Presentation

A framework for interaction of distributed autonomous systems and human supervisors.

H.J.W. Spoelder (Speaker), D.M. Germans (Speaker), L.P.M. Renambot (Speaker), H.E. Bal (Speaker), P.J. Waal (Speaker), F.C.A. Groen (Speaker)

1 May 2001