Academic Activities

A. Journal Editorial Board Memberships (Guest editorials not included)

• Founding Co-Editor in Chief, The International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS), IOS Press, The Netherlands (Inaugural issue editorial). (2002 - )

• Founding Editor in Chief, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), India (Inaugural issue editorial) (2003- 2007)

• Founding Editor in Chief, Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS), USA  (Inaugural issue editorial) (2005 - )

• Co- Editor in Chief, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland (2008 - )

• Co- Editor in Chief, International Journal of Autonomic Computing, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland (2008 - )

• Deputy Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland  (Inaugural issue editorial) (2008 - )

• Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands

• Advisory Editor, International Journal of Reasoning Based Intelligent Systems, Inder science Publishers, Geneve, Switzerland.

• International Advisory Board, International Journal of Software Resuse, California, USA

• International Advisory Board, International Journal of Thinking Objectively, California, USA

• International Advisory Board, International Journal of Unified Software Engines, California, USA

• Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands

• Associate Editor, Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Digital Information Research Foundation, India

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS), Taylor & Francis, UK (2003-2005)

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Web Services Practices, Seoul, Korea

• Associate Editor, Advances in Fuzzy Systems, Hindawi Corporation, USA.

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Biometrics,  Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland

• International Domain Expert, International Journal of Patterns, California, USA

• Editor, International Journal of Software Architecture, California, USA

• Editor, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific, Singapore

• Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), World Scientific, Singapore

• Editor ,  Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Know-Center, Graz, Austria

• Editor, International Journal of Network Security, Journal of Science Publications, Taiwan

• Editor, International Journal of Neural Parallel and Scientific Computations (NPSC), Dynamic Publishers Inc. USA

• Editor, International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications, Inderscience Publishers, Geneve, Switzerland.

• Editor, International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, Inderscience Publishers, Geneve, Switzerland.

• Editor, IADIS International Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems, Portugal

• Editor, International Journal of Soft Computing and Bioinformatics, India

• Editor, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Sciences (IJTACS), India.

• Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice, India.

• Editor, International Journal of Medical Sciences and Technology, India

• Editor, International Journal of Life Sciences and Technology (IJLST), India

• Editor, International Journal of BioSciences and Technology, India

• Editor, Advances in Management, India (2007-2008)

• Editor, Journal of Educational Technology, i-Manager Publications, India (2004-2006)

• Editor, Journal of Engineering and Technology, i-Manager Publications, India (2004-2006)

• Consulting Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, India (2006-2007)

• Consulting Editor, Journal of Advances in Computational Sciences and Technology (ACST), ISSN 0973-6107, Research India Publications, India (2006-2007).

B. Guest Editor of Special Issues of International Journals

• Ajith Abraham, Emilio Corchado and Juan Corchado, Hybrid Intelligence in Neurocomputing, Neurocomputing Journal, Elsevier Science, Netherlands, 2009.

• Ajith Abraham, Emilio Corchado and Juan Corchado, Hybrid Reasoning Based Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems (IJRIS),  Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, Volume 1, Issue 4, 2008 (Editorial).

• Emilio Corchado, Juan Corchado and Ajith Abraham, Hybrid Intelligence for Bio-Medical Informatics, International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IJCIBSB), Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2008 (Editorial).

• Jeng-Shyang Pan and Ajith Abraham,  Bio-Inspired Information Hiding,  Soft Computing: Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer Verlag, Germany, 2008 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Hybrid Soft Computing and Applications, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, World Scientific Press, Singapore, 2009 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Dennis Jarvis, Jacquie Jarvis and Lakhmi Jain, Innovations in Multiagent Systems, Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, The Netherlands, Volume 4, 2008 (Editorial). 

• Richard Chbeir, Ajith Abraham and Pit Pichappan, Computational Intelligence in Digital Information Management, International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (IJICA), Volume 2, 2008 (Editorial).

• Richard Chbeir, Pit Pichappan and Ajith Abraham, Innovations in Information Retrieval and Digital Information Management, Journal of Digital Information Management, , Volume 6, No. 1, pp. 1-2, 2008 (Editorial). 

• Jeng-Shyang Pan and Ajith Abraham,  Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Journal of Digital Information Management, , Volume 6, 2008 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Dusan Húsek and Václav Snásel, Hybrid Computational Intelligence and Applications, International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems - Neural Network World, Volume 17, No. 6, pp. 505-506, 2007 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Yuehui Chen and Fatos Xhafa, Computational Intelligence in Information Retrieval, Journal of Digital Information Management, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 97-98, 2007 (Editorial).

• Fuchun Sun, Yuehui Chen and Ajith Abraham, Intelligent Control and Robotics, International Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Volume 15, 2007 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Yukio Ohsawa and Yasuhiko Dote, Web Intelligence and Chance Discovery, Soft Computing: Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer Verlag, Germany, Volume 11, Number 8, pp. 695-696, 2007. (Editorial).

• Nadia Nedjah, Ajith Abraham and Luiza Mourelle, Hybrid Neurocomputing , International Journal of Neural Computing & Applications, Springer Verlag London Ltd., 2007 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Kate Smith, Ravi Jain and Lakhmi Jain, 'Network and Information Security: A Computational Intelligence Approach', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Netherlands, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 1-3, 2007 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham and Khalid Saeed, Advances in Image Processing, International Journal of Image Processing and Communications, ISSN 1425-140X, Poland, Volume 11, No. 2, 2006. (Editorial)

• Nadia Nedjah, Ajith Abraham and Luiza Mourelle, Knowledge Discovery Using Advanced Computational Intelligence Tools, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 1-1, 2006 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Sung-bae Cho, Thomas Hite and Sang-Yong Han, Computational Intelligence in Web Services Practices , Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), ISSN: 1343-0130, Fuji Press, Japan, Volume 10, No. 5, pp. 703-704, 2006 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Jen-Yao Chung and Sang-Yong Han, Web Services: Recent Advances and Applications, Journal of Digital Information Management, Volume 4, No. 1, pp. 1-3, 2006 (Editorial].

• Ajith Abraham, Sang Yong Han, Antony Satyadas and Witold Abramowicz, Innovations in Web Services Practices , International Journal of Web Services Practices, Vol.1, No.1-2, pp. 1-3, 2005 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham and Crina Grosan, Soft Computing in Simulation and Modeling, International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology, UK, Volume 6, Nos. 10 and 11, 2005 [Editorial].

• Ravi Jain and Ajith Abraham, 'Hybrid Intelligence Using Rough Sets', The International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS), IOS Press, The Netherlands, 2005 (Editorial).

• Janos Abonyi and Ajith Abraham, 'Computational Intelligence in Data Mining', Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Vol. 29, No. 1,  2005 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham and Lakhmi Jain, 'Computational Intelligence on the Internet', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2005 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Johnson Thomas, Sugata Sanyal and Lakhmi Jain, 'Information Assurance and Security', Journal of Universal Computer Science, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2005 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham, Emilia Barakova, Ravi Jain, István Jónyer and Lakhmi Jain, 'Hybrid Neurocomputing and Applications', Neurocomputing Journal, Elsevier Science, Netherlands, Volume 61C, 2004 (Editorial).

• Ajith Abraham and Lakhmi Jain, 'Optimal Knowledge Mining',  Journal of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2004 (Editorial).

• Damminda Alahakoon, Ajith Abraham and Lakhmi Jain, 'Neural Networks for Enhanced Intelligence', International Journal of Neural Computing & Applications, Springer Verlag London Ltd., Volume 13, No. 2, 2004 (Editorial).  

• Sonja Petrovic-Lazerevic and Ajith Abraham, 'Computational Intelligence in Management', International Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, ISSN:1061-5369, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2004 (Editorial). 

• Ajith Abraham and Lakhmi Jain, 'Knowledge Engineering', International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands, Volume 14, Number 3, 2003 (Editorial). 

• Ajith Abraham and P. Saratchandran, 'Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications', International Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Volume 11, Issues 1 & 2, USA, 2003 (Editorial).

C.  Conference and Workshop Organization

• General Co-Chair, World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), New Delhi, India, December 09-11, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2009), Pisa, Italy, November 30-December 02, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2009), Barcelona, Spain, November 4-6, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, Fifth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2009), Xi'an, China, August 18-20, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, Ninth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2009), Shenyang, China, August 12 -14, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009), Fontainebleau, France, June 24-27, 2009.

• Program Chair, Third European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'09), Algarve, Portugal, June 18-20, 2009.

• General Co-Chair, Third Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation, (AMS 2009). Bandung 25-26 May, Bali 29 May 2009.

• General Co-Chair, 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSIM 2009), Cambridge, UK, March 25-27, 2009.

• Tutorial Chair, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08), Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.

• General Co-Chair, Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, (ISDA'08), Taiwan, November 26-28,  2008.

• Program Chair, Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM'08), London, UK, November 13-16, 2008.

• General Co-Chair, The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08), Paris, France, October 26-30, 2008.

• Program Chair, International Conference on New Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'08),  Seoul,  Korea,  October 20-22, 2008.

• Program Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, (HIS 2008), Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008.

• General Co-Chair, The Fourth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, (IAS 2008), Naples, Italy, September 8-10, 2008.

• General Co-Chair, 2nd European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation, (EMS'08), Liverpool, UK, September 8-10, 2008.

• Program Chair, Second European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'08), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 24-26, 2008.

• Conference Chair, 7th Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM'08), Ostrava, Czech Republic , June 27-28, 2008.

• General Co-Chair, Second Asia International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, (AMS 2008), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13-15 May 2008.

• General Co-Chair, Tenth International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, (UKSIM 2008), Cambridge, UK, April 1-3, 2008.

• Program Committee Vice Chair, 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.

• Program Co-Chair, Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2007, Lyon, France, October 29-31, 2007.

• Program Chair, International Conference on New Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'07),  Seoul,  Korea,  October 29-31, 2007.

• General Co-Chair, Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'06,  Rio, Brazil, October 1-3, 2007.

• Program Co-Chair, 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2007, September 17-19, 2007, Kaiserslautern - Germany

• General Co-Chair, The Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security, IAS 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom, August 29-31, 2007.

• Program Chair, First European Conference on Data Mining, ECDM 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 July, 2007.

• General Co-Chair, First Asia International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Phuket, Thailand, March 27-30, 2007.

• Program Co-Chair, Sixth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'06, Auckland, New Zealand,  December 13-15, 2006.

• General Co-Chair,  Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'06,  Jinan, China,  October 16-18, 2006.

• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on New Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'06),  Seoul,  Korea,  September 25-28, 2006.

• General Co-Chair, Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'05, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, November 06-09,  2005.

• Vice Chair, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'05,  Wroclaw,  Poland,  September 08-10, 2005.

• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on New Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'05),  Seoul,  Korea,  August 21-25, 2005.

• General Co-Chair, The Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, WSTST'05, Muroran, Japan, May 25-27, 2005. 

• General Co-Chair, Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'04, Kitakyushu, Japan, 05-08 December 2004. 

• Program Co-Chair, First World Congress in Lateral Computing, WCLC’04, India, 17-19 December 2004. 

• General Chair, 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications WSC9, September 20th-October 08th, 2004,

• Program Co-Chair, Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'04, Budapest, Hungary, 26-28 August 2004. 

• General Co-Chair, Third International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'03, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 December 2003. 

• General Chair, Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'03, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 10-13 August 2003. 

• General Co-Chair, Second International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'02, Santiago, Chile, 01-04 December 2002.

• Organizing Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (IKOMAT'02), Italy, 16-18 September 2002.

• Organizing Chair, Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'02, Atlanta, USA 07-08 August 2002. 

• Workshop Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2001, Adelaide, Australia, 10-11 December 2001. 

• Workshop Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'01, San Francisco, USA, May 2001.

D.  Participation in Technical Reviews - Journals and Books

• IEEE Intelligent Systems

• European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

• IEEE Power Engineering Transactions, IEEE Power Engineering Society, USA  

• Machine Learning, MIT Press, USA

• International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier Science, Netherlands  

• International Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Science, Netherlands  

• Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, WIAS Journal, IOS Press, Netherlands

• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• DNA and Cell Biology

• International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Netherlands

• Journal of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA

• Neurocomputing Journal, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• Information Sciences, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• International Journal of Neural Computing & Applications, Springer-Verlag, London

• International Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, USA 

• International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, Canada

• Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, Nova Publishers, USA

• Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics

• Bioinformatics Journal, European Bioinformatics Institute

• Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, World Scientific, Singapore

• ACM Computing Reviews, Association for Computing Machinery, USA  

• International Journal of Production Research, Taylor and Francis, UK.

• International Journal of Network Security, Taiwan

• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Springer Verlag, Germany

• ACM KDD Explorations

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• Decision Support Systems, Elsevier Science, Netherlands

• International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor and Francis, UK.

• Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Digital Information Research Foundation, India

E.  International Conference Program Committee Participation 

• International Conference on Control, Communication and Computing, ICCC 2010, Kerala, India, 18-20 March, 2010.

• 2009 International Conference on Multimedia Information NEtworking and Security (MINES2009), Wuhan, Hubei, China, Nov 2009

• International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions, The Beskids - Kocierz Pass, Poland , September 25-27, 2009.

• 10th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2009), Burgos, Spain, September 23-26, 2009.

• 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'09), Milano, Italy, 15-18 September, 2009.

• IEEE International Conference on Information Reuser and Integration, IRI09, Las Vegas, August 10-12, 2009.

• International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, Systems biology and computational intelligent (IJCBS), Tongji University, Shanghai, China, August 3-6, 2009.

• Second IEEE International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (IEEE BIFE 2009), Beijing, China, July 24-26, 2009.

• International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2009 (ASONAM09), Athens, Greece, July 20-22, 2009.

• International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, Santiago, Spain, June 26-28, 2009.

• IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009), Atlanta, USA, June 14-19, 2009.

• 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2009), Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009.

• 4^th International Workshop on Soft Computing Models in Industrial Applications, (SOCO 2009) Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12th, 2009.

• IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2009), Richardson, TX, USA, Jun 8 - 12, 2009

• Workshop on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems, SOMAS 2009, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 - 5 June 2009.

• 3rd International KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, KES AMSTA 2009, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 - 5 June 2009.

• International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronic Engineering (CIM09), Malacca, Malaysia, 2 - 3 June 2009.

• The 2nd International Symposium on Financial Information Processing, China, May 29-31, 2009.

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May 2009.

• The 13^th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09), Thailand, April 27-30, 2009.

• First International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies, IDT'09, Himeji, Japan, 23-25 April 2009

• International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services, INTENSIVE 2009, Valencia, Spain, April 21-25, 2009.

• 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2009.

• First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI2009, Allahabad, India, 20-23 January 2009.

• International Workshop on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (DMAI 2008) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2008),  Khulna, Bangladesh, December 25-27, 2008.

• 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI'08), Sydney, Australia, December 9-12,  2008.

• 2008 Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, Online Conference on the Internet, 10- 21 November 2008.

• International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'08), Daejeon, South Korea, November 2-5, 2008.

• 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mexico City, Mexico, October 27-31, 2008.

• International Conference on Knowledge Management, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 23-24 October, 2008.

• 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, ICEBE 2008, Xi'an, China, October 22-24, 2008

• 3rd International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'08), Wisla, Poland, October 20-22, 2008.

• IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Shanghai, China, October 18-20, 2008.

• World Automation Congress, WAC 2008, Hawai, USA, September 28 - October 2, 2008.

• 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2007), Burgos, Spain, September 24-26, 2008.

• 34th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Parma, Italy, September 1-5, 2008.

• International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology ICHIT 2008, August 28 - 29, 2008, Daejeon, Korea.

• 2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Hangzhou , China, August 26-28, 2008.

• 1st annual North American Simulation Technology Conference (NASTEC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 13-15, 2008.

• The Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2008), Thailand, August 6 - 8, 2008.

• International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications (CIMA 2008) in conjunction with 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-08), Patras, Greece, July 21-22, 2008.

• 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering,  São Paulo - Brazil, July 16-18, 2008.

• 1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ICETET- 08), 16-18th July 2008, Nagpur, India

• 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08), Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.

• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-08), Las Vegas, USA, July 13 - 15, 2008

• 2008 IEEE Conference on Soft Computing and Industrial Applications, June 25-27, 2008.

• 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.

• International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May -1 June 2007.

• 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008.

• 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2008, Madeira, Portugal, 4 - 7, May 2008.

• 2nd International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), Kathmandu, Nepal, 18-21 March 2008.

• Second International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2008), Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, March 4-7, 2008.

• Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'07), Kolkata, India, December 18-22, 2007.

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Signal-Image technology and Internet Based Systems, SITIS 2007, China, December 16-19, 2007.

• 8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'07), Birmingham, UK, 16-19 December, 2007.

• 2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences – CMLS’07, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, December 17-19, 2007.

• International Conference on Enterprise Systems and Applications Activity Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 12-13, 2007.

• 2007 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2007) Tsukuba, Japan, December 11-14, 2007.

• Steering Committee Member, Third IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP'07, Kaohshuing, Taiwan, November 26- 28, 2007.

• International Conference on Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT'07), Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, November 21-23, 2007.

• 12th Conference of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Technology Transfer on Artificial Intelligence, Salamanca, Spain, November 12-16, 2007.

• The 6th Congress of Logic Applied to Technology (LAPTEC07), Santos, Brazil, November 7-9, 2007.

• IEEE/WIC/ACM Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction 2007, (ADMI2007), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.

• 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-4, 2007.

• 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.

• IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07), Hong Kong October 24-26, 2007.

• IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Cambridge - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 15-17, 2007.

• Symposium on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA07), Wisla, Poland, October 15-17,2007.

• 12th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC12), on the WWW, September 2007.

• 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Singapore, September 25-28, 2007.

• Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators (AGRO 2007), Special session of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 25-28, 2007.

• Tthe IEEE Region 8 International Conference on Computer as a tool, (EUROCON 2007), Warsaw, Poland, September 9-12, 2007.

• 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007), Dalian, China, September 18-21, 2007.

• 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Lübeck, Germany, August 27 - 31, 2007.

• 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2007), Vienna, Austria, August 27-28, 2007.

• IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07), Orlando, Florida, USA, August 12-17, 2007.

• The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, (IEEE IRI'07), Las Vegas, USA, August 13 - 15, 2007.

• 2007 IEEE Three-Rivers Workshop on Soft computing in Industrial Applications, Passau, Germany, August 1-3, 2007.

• The International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007.

• IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'07), Tokyo,
  Japan, July 23-26, 2007.

• Steering Committee Member 6th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, Elk,
  Poland, June 28 30, 2007.

• 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07), Las Vegas, USA, June 25-28, 2007.

• Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks, (ISNN'07), Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007.

• International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC'07, Murcia, Spain, June 18-21, 2007.

• The 8th Conference on Computing (CORE 2007), Mexico City, May 16-18, 2007.

• 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems, (BIS'07), Poznan, Poland, April 25-27, 2007.

• First International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing (3PGIC-2007), Vienna, Austria, April 10-13, 2007.

• First International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 10-13, 2007.

• Second Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (ICTIS'2006), Tetuan, Morocco, April 3-5, 2007.

• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA'07), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.

• IEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06), Hong  Kong, December 18-22, 2006.

• Steering Committee Member, Second International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP'06, California, December 18-22, 2006.

• International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS'06), Santa Clara, Cuba, December 5-8, 2006.

• First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM'06), Bangalore, India, December 6-8, 2006.

• 15th International Conference on Computing, CIC-2006, Mexico, November 21 to 24, 2006.

• 5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI'06), Mexico, November 13-17, 2006.

• 2006 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT 2006), Cheju Island, Korea, November 09–11, 2006.

• International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA'06), Wisla, Poland, November 6-10, 2006.

• International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'06), Shanghai, China, Oct 24-26, 2006.

• European Simulation and Modeling Conference (ESM 2006), Toulouse, France, October 23-25, 2006.

• 5th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, Elk, Poland, October 18-20, 2006.

• 11th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC'11), World Wide Web, September 18 - October 06, 2006.

• First International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and Applications (BIC-TA), , in Wuhan, China, September 18-22, 2006.

• 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'06), Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006.

• 2006 International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P. R. China, August 30 – September 1, 2006.

• International Conference on e-Business (IC-B 2006), August 7-10, 2006, Setubal, Portugal.

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'06), 2006 World Congress in Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.

• 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, RASC 2006, Canterbury, UK, 10-12, July 2006.

• 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 06) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE' 06), San Francisco, USA, June 26-29, 2006.

• The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA, 26 - 29 June 2006.

• 9th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS'06, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 31-June 2, 2006.

• The 12th International Conference on Soft Computing, MENDEL 2006, Brno, Czech Republic, May 31- June2, 2006.

• The Third International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006), May 29-31, 2006, Chengdu, China.

• 17th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Conference, Washington DC, USA, May 21-24, 2006.

• 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006.

• Evolutionary Optimization Workshop - EvoOpt 2006, The 19th International FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, Florida, May 11-13, 2006.

• The 4th International Multi-Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, CSIT 2006, Amman, Jordan,  April 5-7, 2006.

• Workshop on Learning Algorithms for Pattern Recognition, in conjunction with The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2005.

• 2005 IEEE-ICDM Workshop on MultiAgent Data Warehousing and MultiAgent Data Mining, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 27, 2005.

• The International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM'05), North Carolina, USA, 27-28 October, 2005.

• 2005 European Simulation and Modeling Conference (ESM 2005),  Porto, Portugal, 24-26 October, 2005.

• The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005), Beijing,  China, October 18-20, 2005.

• The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05),  France, September 19-22,  2005.

• WSC10: 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications,  September 19th - October 7th, 2005.

• 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK, September 2nd--5th, 2005.

• Poster track Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30 - August 5, 2005.

• 10th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 21-26, 2005. 

• 2005 IEEE Midnight-Sun Workshop on Soft Computing Methods in Industrial Applications, Finland, June 28-30, 2005.

• Agent-Based Computing II— ABC 2005,  Mexico, Morocco, Australia,  2005.

• Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (ICTIS’2005) , Tetuan,  Morocco,  June 03-06, 2005.

• Workshop on Information Security Assurance and Security (WISA’05), Tetuan,  Morocco,  June 03-06, 2005.

• International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC'05), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-4, 2005.

• 11th International Mendel Conference on Soft Computing (MENDEL'05), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2005.

• 18th International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Systems, Florida, USA, May 16-18, 2005.

• The 2nd International Conference on Information Technology: Human Computer Interaction, ICIT 2005, Amman, Jordan, May 3-5, 2005.

• 8th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2005), Poznan, Poland, April 20 - 22, 2005.

• IEEE International Conference on Coding and Computing (ITCC'05), Las Vegas, USA, April 11-13, 2005.

• The Fifth Congress of Logic Applied to Technology (LAPTEC’05), Hyogo, Japan, April 2-4, 2005

• 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC 2004), Nottingham, UK,  December 16-18, 2004. 

• International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM'04), Singapore, December 13-15, 2004.

• 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004 

• 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004.  

• International Conference on Signal Processing, Çanakkale, Turkey, September 15-17, 2004.

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, Çanakkale, Turkey, July 14-16, 2004.

• 10th International Mendel Conference on Soft Computing (MENDEL'04), Czech Republic, June 2004.  

• 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'04), Portland, USA, June 2004.

• 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (HMAS'04), Aachen, Germany, June 10-12, 2004. 

• IEEE International Conference on Coding and Computing (ITCC'04), Las Vegas, USA, April 05-07, 2004.

• 7th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS’04), Poland. April 21-23, 2004

• International Conference on Educational Technologies, Çanakkale, Turkey, May 26-28, 2004.

• International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI'04), Turkey, February 11-13, 2004.

• HiPC 2003 Workshop on Soft-Computing (WoSCo'03), Hyderabad, India, December 2003.

• 8th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, WSC 8, September 29th-October 10th, 2003.

• 2003 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), Arkansas, USA, 2003.

• 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), Beijing, China, October 2003.

• 2003 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2003), Canberra, Australia, December 8-12, 2003.

• International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, 15-17, December 2003, India.

• Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 3- 5 September 2003, Oxford, United Kingdom.  

• 9th International Mendel Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2003.

• 12th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering, July 9-11, 2003, San Francisco, USA.

• 7th International Work Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, June 3-6, 2003, Spain..

• HiPC 2002 Workshop on Soft Computing (WoSCo’02), December 18, 2002, India.

• 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC7), 23 September - 10 October 2002, WWW

• The 2002 WSES International Conference on Mathematics, Optimization and Applications, Poland, 01-05 September 2002.

• The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'02), 2002

• 8th International Mendel Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, 2002.

• The 2001 WSES International Conference on Mathematics, Optimization and Applications, Cairns, Australia, 17-21 December 2001.

• 7th International Mendel Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2001.

• The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2001, Las Vegas, USA, June 2001.

• The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, METMBS’01, Las Vegas, USA, June 2001. 

F.  Tutorials Given During International Conferences

• Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Reviews, Perspectives and Applications, Applied Computing, San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 February 2006.

• Meta-learning Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks, Second International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'02, Santiago, Chile, 01-04 December 2002.

• Hybrid Soft Computing: Architectures, Prospects and Applications, 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC6), On the Internet, September 10 - 24, 2001.

• Designing Neuro-Fuzzy Systems - Reviews and Prospects for Applications in Practice, 15th European Simulation Multiconference, (ESM 2001),  Prague, (06-09)June 2001.

• It is Time to Fuzzify Neural Networks!, International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education, (ICIMADE'01) Fargo, USA, 03 June 2001.

• Evolutionary Design of Hybrid Systems, International Symposium on Adaptive Systems: Evolutionary Computation and Probabilistic Graphical Models, ISAS 2001, Cuba, March 2001.

• Fusing Artificial Intelligence Techniques: Reviews and Prospects for Industrial Applications, Second International Conference on Computers in Industry, ICCI 2000, Bahrain, November 2000.

G.  Sessions Chaired During International Conferences 

• Plenary Sessions Chair, The Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, WSTST'05, Muroran, Japan, May 25-27, 2005.

• IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2005, Algarve, Portugal, 22-25 February 2005.

• Chair of Panel Discussion, ‘Future of Hybrid Intelligent Systems’,  Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS'04, Kitakyushu, Japan, 05-08 December 2004.

• 2003 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2003), Canberra, Australia, December 8-12, 2003.

• 7th International Work Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN'03), June 3-6, 2003, Spain.

• Second International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems,(HIS'02), Santiago, Chile, 01-04 December 2002.

• The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, (ISIC'02), Waterloo, Canada, October 27-30, 2002.

• First International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, (HIS'01), Adelaide, Australia, (10-11) December 2001.

• International Work-conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN'01), Granada, Spain, June 2001.

• 15th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM'01), Prague, June 2001.

H.  Plenary Talks

I.  External Seminars and Invited Talks

• Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems Workshop (HAIS'07 -CAEPIA'07)in Conjunction with The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA), Salamanca, Spain, November 2007.

• EMODA'07: International Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Design and Applications in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 22-24, 2007.

• 1st International Workshop on Web & Grid based Virtual Laboratories, Experimenting and Simulation (WG-LES2007) in conjunction with The
  Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'07, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 22-24, 2007.

• NCA'07: Natural Computing and Applications, in conjunction with 8th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for
  Scientific Computing Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2007.

• International Workshop on Intrusion Prevention Systems (IWIPS'07), in conjunction with The Third International Symposium on Information
  Assurance and Security (IAS'07), Manchester, United Kingdom, August 29 - 31, 2007.

• International Workshop on Intelligent Soft Computing Approaches to Multimedia Processing, (ISCAMP'2007), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, November 26-28, 2007.

• International Workshop on Soft Computing in Intelligent Multimedia, Seoul Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea, April 26-28, 2007.

• IAPLM'06: The First International Workshop on Intelligent Application in Product Lifecycle Management,  Jinan, China, October 16-18, 2006.

• EMODA'06: International Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Design and Applications in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'06, Jinan, China, October 16-18, 2006.

• SIP'06: Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, SIP'05: Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'06, Jinan, China, October 16-18, 2006.

• NCA'06: Natural Computing and Applications, in conjunction with 8th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing Timisoara, Romania September 26-29, 2006.

• Special Session on 'Hybrid Neurocomputing in Financial Modeling and Forecasting'in conjunction with The Third International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006), Chengdu, China, May 29-31, 2006.

• NCA'05: Natural Computing and Applications, in conjunction with 7th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing,  Timisoara,  Romania, September 25 - 29, 2005.

• EMODA'05: International Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Design and Applications (EMODA'05), in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'05, Wroclaw, Poland, September 08-10, 2005.

• IAS'05: Information Assurance and Security, in conjunction with International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2005), April 11-13, 2005, Las Vegas, USA.

• SIP’05: Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, in conjunction with The Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, WSTST'05, Muroran, Japan, May 25-27, 2005.  .  

• SIP’04: Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, International Workshop Session in conjunction with ISDA’04 – 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, August 26-28, 2004, Hungary.  

• IAS'04: Information Assurance and Security, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2004), April 5-7, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

• NF'03: Neural Network and Fuzzy Systems, 7th International Work Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, June 3-6, 2003, Spain.

• CIM'03: Computational Intelligence in Management, 2003 EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, July 6, 2003 - July 10, 2003 Istanbul, Turkey.

K.  Technical Society / Working Group Memberships

• Senior Member, Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), USA

• Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society, USA

• Member, ACM- Association for Computing Machinery, USA

• Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom

• Member, Institution of Engineers, Australia

• Member, World Federation on Soft Computing

• Member, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, (EUSFLAT) Working Group on Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

• Member, EvoNet, European Network for Excellence in Evolutionary Computing

• Member, EU/ME, European Chapter on Metaheuristics, Working Group of the The Association of European Operational Research Societies