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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * John Romein'''
'''Johannes Willem (John) Romein'''(born March 26, 1970),<br/>
a Dutch computer scientist at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRON ASTRON], the Netherlands Foundation for Research in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy Astronomy]. Before, he was postdoctoral researcher working on parallel [[Algorithms|algorithms]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics bioinformatics] department at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam Amsterdam], and defended his Ph.D. on ''Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search'' in 2001 under the supervision of [[Henri Bal]] <ref>[[John Romein]] ('''2001'''). ''Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit], supervisor [[Henri Bal]], [http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/1871/11305/1/5429.pdf pdf]</ref>. Multigame is a [[Languages|language]] for the purpose of [[General Game Playing|general game playing]] using a [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing distributed computing]. In 2002, along with [[Henri Bal]], he solved the game of [[Awari]] <ref>[[John Romein]], [[Henri Bal]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content25-3.htm#AWARI%20IS%20SOLVED Awari is Solved]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3]]</ref> <ref>[http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Awari_Oracle Awari Oracle - Mancala World - Wikia]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Romein:John_W=.html dblp: John W. Romein]</ref><ref>[http://www.astron.nl/~romein/ John W. Romein]</ref>
==1995 ...==
* [[John Romein]], [[Henri Bal]] ('''1995'''). ''Parallel N-Body Simulation on a Large-Scale Homogeneous Distributed System''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/europar/europar95.html Euro-Par 1995]
* [[John Romein]] ('''2001'''). ''Multigame - An Environment for Distributed Game-Tree Search''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit], supervisor [[Henri Bal]], [http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/1871/11305/1/5429.pdf pdf] <ref>[[Dap Hartmann]] ('''2001'''). ''Multigame - an Environment for Distributed Game Tree Research''. [[ICGA Journal#24_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1]] (Review)</ref>
* [[John Romein]], [[Henri Bal]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content25-3.htm#AWARI%20IS%20SOLVED Awari is Solved]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3]] <ref>[[Jeroen Donkers]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content25-3.htm#COMMENTS%20ON%20THE%20AWARI%20SOLUTION Comments on the Awari Solution]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3]]</ref>
* [[John Romein]], [[Henri Bal]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Aske Plaat]] ('''2002'''). ''A Performance Analysis of Transposition-Table-Driven Scheduling in Distributed Search''. [[IEEE#TPDS|IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems]], Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 447–459. [http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bal/Papers/tds.pdf pdf] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47700 Transposition driven scheduling] by [[Daniel Shawul]], [[CCC]], April 04, 2013</ref>
* [[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]], [http://www.few.vu.nl/~heringa/ Jaap Heringa], [[Henri Bal]] ('''2003'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1048935.1050171 A Million-Fold Speed Improvement in Genomic Repeats Detection]''. ACM/IEEE SC2003 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing
