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Johannes Willem (John) Romein (born March 26, 1970),
a Dutch computer scientist at ASTRON, the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy. Before, he was postdoctoral researcher working on parallel algorithms in the bioinformatics department at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and defended his Ph.D. on Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search in 2001 under the supervision of Henri Bal ^[1]. Multigame is a language for the purpose of general game playing using a parallel search and distributed computing. In 2002, along with Henri Bal, he solved the game of Awari ^[2] ^[3].

Selected Publications

1995 ...

John Romein, Henri Bal (1995). Parallel N-Body Simulation on a Large-Scale Homogeneous Distributed System. Euro-Par 1995
John Romein, Henri Bal, Dick Grune (1997). An Application Domain Specific Language for Describing Board Games. PDPTA 1997, CiteSeerX
John Romein, Aske Plaat, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer (1999). Transposition Table Driven Work Scheduling in Distributed Search. AAAI-99, pdf ^[7] ^[8]

John Romein, Henri Bal, Dick Grune (2000). The Multigame Reference Manual. Vrije Universiteit, pdf
John Romein (2001). Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, Vrije Universiteit, supervisor Henri Bal, pdf ^[9]
John Romein, Henri Bal (2002). Awari is Solved. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 ^[10]
John Romein, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat (2002). A Performance Analysis of Transposition-Table-Driven Scheduling in Distributed Search. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, pdf ^[11]
John Romein, Henri Bal (2003). Solving the Game of Awari using Parallel Retrograde Analysis. IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 26–33
John Romein, Jaap Heringa, Henri Bal (2003). A Million-Fold Speed Improvement in Genomic Repeats Detection. ACM/IEEE SC2003 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing

Rob van Nieuwpoort, John Romein (2009). Using many-core hardware to correlate radio astronomy signals. ICS 2009: 440-449, pdf
John Romein (2009). FCNP: Fast I/O on the Blue Gene/P. Proc. Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’09), Vol. 1, pp. 224-231, July 2009, pdf