Professor Ning Zhong,  PhD

(a) Honors and Awards

• Guest/Adjunct professor of Beijing University of Technology (1998 -- date)
• Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) Most Influential Paper Award (1999-2008)
• Best Paper Award of AMT (2006)
• IEEE TCCI/ICDM Outstanding Service Award (2004)
• Best paper award of JSAI (2003)
• ACM's Recognition of Service Awards (2002)
• Best Paper Award of SCI (2001)
  

(b) Keynote/Invited Talks

• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at 2012 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'12), Omaha, USA, June 4-6, 2012
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at 2011 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings'11), Dalian China, Oct 19-22, 2011
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at The 6th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS'11), Beijing China, Oct 22-24, 2011
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2010), China National Convention Center, Beijing, China, August 17-20, 2010.
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at the 3rd International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO 2010) Huangshan (Yellow) Mountain, Anhui, China, May 28-31, 2010.
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at 5th International Conference on INC, IMS and IDC (NCM 2009). INC'09: International Conference on Networked Computing; IMS'09: International Conference on Advanced Information Technology and its Applications, Seoul, Korea, Aug 25-27, 2009.
• N. Zhong, Keynote Talk at Second International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (BIFE'09), Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2009.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'09), Hong Kong, June 15-17, 2009.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the 2009 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (BIFE'09), Beijing China, July 24-26, 2009.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the Fifth International Joint Conference on NCM 2009, Seoul, Korea, August 25-27, 2009.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at 5th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2008), Beijing, China, Oct 19-22, 2008.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at 2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'08), Hangzhou, China, Aug 26-28, 2008.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the Twenty First International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2008), Wroclaw, Poland, 18-20 June 2008.
• N. Zhong Invited Talk at 2008 IEEE Data Mining Forum, sponsored by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligence Informatics (TCII), Hong Kong, May 28-29, 2008.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'07), Kolkata, India, December 18-22, 2007.
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at the 7th Chinese Conference of Rough Sets and Soft Computing (CRSSC'007), the First Chinese Conference of Granular Computing (CCrC'07), the First Chinese Conference of Web Intelligence (CWI'07), Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi P.R. China, August 19-21, 2007.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'07), Fontainebleau, France, June 25-27, 2007.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-07), Innsbruck, Austria, 3-7 June 2007.
• N. Zhong Invited Talk at AIS-ADM-07: The International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3-5, 2007
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at Grid Computing Research Group, University of Vienna, Austria, June, 2007.
• N. Zhong WIC Feature Talk at 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI-06) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06), Hong Kong, Dec. 18-22, 2006.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the First International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT'06), Cheju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006.
• N. Zhong Keynote Talk at the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI'06), Guilin, China, August 7-11, 2006.
• N. Zhong Invited Talk at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'06), Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006.
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at the Forum on Theory of Granular Computing from Rough Set Perspective, Nanchang, China, July 20-22, 2006.
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at Present Departmental Colloquium of Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA, June 16, 2006
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at Shannon Lecture series, organized by SCVC IEEE-CS and the Stanford IEEE Student Branch, ROOM 128 Education Building, Stanford University, March 23, 2006.
• N. Zhong, Invited Talk at the seminar series on Computational Learning and Adaptation, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, March 22, 2006.
• N. Zhong "Multi-Aspect Data Analysis in Brain Informatics", Invited Talk at the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'05), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, December 18-22, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Peculiarity Oriented Multi-Database Mining", Invited Talk at the Data Mining seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, December 16-17, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Towards Human-Level Web Intelligence", Invited Talk at the 10th International Workshop on ough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'05), Regina, Canada, September 1-3, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Multi-Aspect Data Analysis with Rough-Set Based Hybrid Methods", Invited Talk at the 5th China Conference on Rough Set and Soft Computing (CRSSC'05), Anshan, China, August 1-5, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Building a Brain-Informatics Portal on the Wisdom Web with a Multi-Layer Grid: A New Challenge for Web Intelligence Research", Invited Talk at 2nd International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI'05), Tsukuba, Japan, July 25-27, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Web Intelligence Meets Brain Informatics: An Impending Revolution in WI and Brain Sciences", Keynote Talk at the 3rd International Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'05), Lodz, Poland, June 6-9, 2005.
• N. Zhong "Developing Intelligent Portals by Using WI Technologies", Keynote Talk at the Second International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'04), Chongqing, P.R. China, May 29-31, 2004.
• N. Zhong, Web Intelligence Meets Brain-Informatics, Keynote Talk at the 9th KEIHANNA Web Semantics Research Meeting, Keihanna Plaza, Japan, Oct 21, 2004.
• N. Zhong, Developing e-Science Portals by Using WI Technologies, Keynote Talk at Japan Information Processing Service Co., LTD, Tokyo, Japan, July 8, 2004.
• N. Zhong "Building a Data Mining Grid for Multiple Human Brain Data Analysis", Keynote Talk at the ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Science, in conjunction with 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'03), San Francisco, USA, 21 June, 2003.
• N. Zhong "Toward Web Intelligence", Keynote Talk at Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'03), Madrid, Spain, May 5-7, 2003.
• N. Zhong "Web Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Developing the Wisdom Web and Social Network Intelligence", Keynote Talk at Japan Rough Set Whorshop 2002, NII, Japan, December 15, 2002.
• N. Zhong, Rough Sets in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Invited Talk at Statistical Research Center for Complex Systems, Seoul National University, March 4, 2002.
• N. Zhong, Peculiarity Oriented Multi-Database Mining, Invited Talk at Statistical Research Center for Complex Systems, Seoul National University, March 4, 2002.
• N. Zhong, Intelligent IT, Invited Talk at Gunma Hundred Club, Oct. 1, 2001.
• N. Zhong, Intelligent IT, Invited Talk at Maebashi City Government, Sept. 28, 2001.
• N. Zhong, Data Mining and Web Intelligence, Invited Talk at Gunma Prefecture Government, June 29, 2001.
• N. Zhong "Rough Sets in KDD", Tutorial Speaker (with Andrzej Skowron) at the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000), Keihanna Plaza, Kyoto, Japan, April 18, 2000.
• N. Zhong, A Rough Sets Based Knowledge Discovery Process, Invited Talk at University of Edinburgh, UK, July 3, 2000.

(c) Academic, Research Group/Society

• Assessor of Scientific Research Funds, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2010)
• Assessor of Scientific Research Funds, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2006 -- 2008)
• Assessor of University Grants Committee, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (1999 -- date)
• Assessor of NSF China (2005 -- date)

• Member of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
• Member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPS)
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Member of IEEE Computer Society
• Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
• Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Co-chairs and co-directors (Co-founder) of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (2002 -- date)
• Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (2009- date)
• Chair of the executive committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) (2006 -- 2009) (Vice Chair: 2002 -- March 2006, Chair: April 2006 -- 2009)
• Vice chair of the executive committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Granular Computing (GrC) (2007-2010)
• Councilor of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2008-date)

• Editor (intelligent systems area) of Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering published by Wiley (a follow-on project to Webster's Encyclopedia on Electrical and Electronics Engineering) (2002-2009)
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, (2 Volumes) published by Idea Group Inc. (2004-2006).
• Editor-in-Chief of Brain Informatics, An International Journal (Springer) (2014 -- date)
• Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, An International Journal (IOS Press) (2002 -- date)
• Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Book Series on Web Intelligence and Web Science (Higher Education Press) (2011-date)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2003 -- 2008)
• Associate Editor of Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal (Springer) (1998 -- date)
• Associate Editor of Health Information Science and Systems (Springer) (2011-date)
• Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (World Scientific Publishing) (2012-date)
• Member of the editorial board of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier) (2010-date)
• Member of the editorial board of Computational Intelligence (Wiley) (2011-date)
• Member of the editorial board of Transactions on Rough Sets (Springer) (2003 -- date)
• Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Semantic Computing (World Scientific Publishing) (2006-date)
• Member of the editorial board of Frontiers in AI and Applications book series (IOS Press) (2005 -- date)
• Member of the advisory board for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery book series (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press) (2007 -- date)

• Guest editor of World Wide Web Journal (2012) Special Issue on Wisdom Web of Things (W2T)
• Guest editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems (2011) Special Issue on Brain Informatics
• Guest editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data (2010) Special Issue on Data Mining for Web Intelligence
• Guest editor of International Journal of Semantic Computing, World Scientific (2010) Special Issue on Web Scale Reasoning
• Guest editor of Cognitive Systems Research, an International Journal, Elsevier (2010) Special Issue on Brain Informatics
• Guest editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2006) Special Issue on Active Media Technology for Intelligent IT
• Guest editor of Cognitive Systems Research, An International Journal, Elsevier Science Publishers (2004) Special Issue on Intelligent Agents and Data Mining for Cognitive Systems
• Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)'' for Knowledge Based Systems, an International Journal, Elsevier Science Publishers (2004) (with Yiyu, Yao, Jiming Liu, and Setsuo Ohsuga)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)'' for Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003) (with Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao, and Z.W. Ras)
• Member of the editorial board of special issue on Web Information Processing Technology for Transaction of IEICE (D) (2003)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)'' for IEEE Computer (November 2002) (with Jiming Liu and Yiyu Yao)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``intelligent IT'' for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2002) (with Jiming Liu and Patrick Wang)
• Member of the editorial board of special issue on ``Active Data Mining'' for Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2002)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``intelligent agent technology'' for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15, No. 3, World Scientific (2001) (with Jiming Liu, Y.Y. Tang, and Patrick Wang)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``Rough Sets and Their Applications'' for International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, Technical University Press, Poland (2001) (with Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Roman W. Swiniarski, and Wojciech Ziarko)
• Guest editor of special issue on ``Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing'' for Computational Intelligence An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (2001) (with Andrzej Skowron and Nick Cercone)

• Steering committee chair (co-founder) of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) (2001-date)
• Steering committee chair (co-founder) of International Joint Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT) and Brain Informatics (BI) (2009-date)
• Steering committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) (2000 -- date)
• Steering committee member of Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) (1999 -- date)
• Steering committee member of International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) (2002 -- date)
• Steering Committee member of Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC) (2003 -- date)
• Steering committee member of International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT) (2003-date)
• Steering committee member of Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC) (2006-date)
• Member of Task Force Committee of IEEE GrC (2004-2006)
• Member of the advisory board of ACM SIGART (2003 -- 2007)
• Member of ACM SIGKDD International Liaisons Board (1998 -- 2002)
• Member of the Advisory Board of International Rough Set Society (1997 -- date)

(d) Academic/Research Conferences

• Steering Chair of 2012 World Intelligence Congress, Dec 4-7, 2012, Macau, China
• Conference Chair of 2011 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'11), September 7-9, 2011, Lianzhou, China
• Program Chair of 2011 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'11), September 7-9, 2011, Lianzhou, China
• Program committee member of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'10), December 14-17, 2010, Sydney, Australia
• Program committee member of 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010), Washington, USA, July 25-28, 2010.
• Program committee member of International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks 2010 (CASoN 2010), Taiyuan, China, September 26-28, 2010.
• Program committee member of 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, Canada, October 26-30, 2010.
• Chair of the section of Cognitive Science and Information Science at the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2010), China National Convention Center, Beijing, China, August 17-20, 2010.
• Program committee member of 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-10), Hyderabad, India, June 21-24, 2010.
• Member of the most influential paper award committee of PAKDD2010
• Program Chair of 2009 International Conference on Brain Informatics, Beijing, China, Oct. 22-24, 2009.
• Program committee member of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09) (December 6-9, Miami, Florida, USA)
• Program committee member of the sixth MDAI conference (Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence), Awaji, Island, November 30-Decembre 2, 2009.
• Program committee member of the 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'09), Prague, Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2009
• Program committee member of 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2009), Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2009.
• Program committee member of International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009), June 24-27, 2009, Fontainebleau, France.
• Industry track program committee member of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15, 2009.
• Program committee member of 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09), Bangkok, Thailand, 27-30 April 2009.
• Program committee member of 2009 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME'09), April 9-11 at Tempe, AZ, USA.
• Steering committee member of 4th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'09), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, July 17-19, 2009.
• Program committee member of 12th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (Delhi, India, December 16-18, 2009).
• Member of 2008 IEEE ICDM Awards Nomination Committee.
• Program committee member of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-08), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008.
• Program committee member of the fifth MDAI conference (Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence), Sabadell (Catalonia, Spain), October 30-31, 2008.
• Program committee member of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Intelligence (ICAI-08), October 19-22, 2008, Beijing, China.
• Program committee member of the sixth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'08), October 23-25, 2008, the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA.
• Program committee member of the 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08), Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2008.
• Program committee member of Fourteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2008), Las Vegas, USA, Aug 24-27, 2008.
• Program committee member of 6th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC 2008), Cape Town, South Africa, June 30-July 3, 2008.
• Steering Committee member of the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'08) (May 20-23, 2008, Toronto, Canada)
• International advisory board member of ICEITC 2007 (November 23-24, 2007, Chonbuk National University, South Korea)
• Member of 2007 IEEE ICDM Awards Nomination Committee.
• Track chair on knowledge engineering, IEEE First International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07) (September 17-19, 2007, Hyatt Regency Irvine, Irvine, California, USA)
• Program committee member of 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07) (August 12-17, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA)
• Senior program committee member of 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07) (San Jose, CA, USA, August 12-15, 2007)
• Program committee member of 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, August 12-15, 2007.
• Program committee member of 6th IEEE Inter. Conf. on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'07), California, USA, Aug 6-8, 2007.
• Program committee member of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Innsbruck, Austria, 7-8 June 2007.
• Program committee member of 1st KES Inter. Symposium on Agent and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA-07), Wrodaw, Poland, May 17-18, 2007.
• Program committee member of the fourth MDAI conference (Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence) (Kitakyushu, Japan, Aug. 16-18, 2007)
• Program committee member of International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agent and Data Mining, 2007 (AIS-ADM-07) (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2007)
• Conference Co-chair of 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM'07) (Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007)
• Program chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) (Dec 18-21, 2006, Hong Kong)
• Advisory board member of 2006 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT'06) (November 9-11, 2006, Cheju Island, Korea)
• Advisory board member of the Fifth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'06) (November 5-8, 2006, Kobe, Japan)
• Program committee member of Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'06) (20-23 September 2006 in Burgos, Spain)
• International General Co-chair of Third German Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Technologies (MATES'06) (Sept. 11-13, 2006, Koblenz, Germany)
• Program committee member of the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2006) (7- 11th August 2006, Guilin, China)
• Conference Chair of International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'06) (July 24-26, 2006, Chongqing, China)
• Program committee member of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'06) (July 17-19, 2006, Beijing, China)
• Chair of Special Session on Data for Discovery in Engineering at IEA/AIE'06 (June 27-30, 2006, Annecy, France)
• Program committee member of the Joint 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, CA, June 26-29, 2006)
• Conference Co-chair of the 4th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'06) (June 7-9, Brisbane, Australia)
• Program committee vice chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'06) (GSU, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006)
• Program committee member of Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM-2006) (April 20-22, 2006, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
• Program committee member of the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-06) (April 9-12, 2006, Singapore)
• Program committee member of the third MDAI conference (Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence) (April 3-5, 2006, Tarragona, Spain)
• Honorary Conference Chair of Special Track on Web Intelligence and Soft Computing, Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI'05) (December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India)
• International program committee member of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'05) (December 18-22, 2005, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
• Publicity chair and Web master of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'05) (Houston, Texas, USA, 27-30 November 2005)
• Program committee member of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'05) (Houston, Texas, USA, 27-30 November 2005)
• Program committee member of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'05) (Bejing, July 25-27, 2005)
• Program committee member of Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05) (6th - 8th July, 2005, Brisbane, Australia)
• Program committee member of the International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems - Agents and Data Mining (AIS-ADM-05) (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 6-8, 2005)
• The steering committee member of the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'05) (May 26-28, 2005, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA)
• Program committee member of 3rd German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2005) (September 12 - 14, 2005m the University of Koblenz-Landau in Koblenz, Germany)
• Program committee member of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05) (29 March-1 April, 2005, Hong Kong)
• Program committee member of 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-05) (September 21-23, 2005 Capri-Sorrento Peninsular, Italy)
• Advisory board member of the 10th International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'05) (September 1-3, 2005, Regina, Canada)
• Program committee member of the 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-05) (May 18-20, 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam)
• The scientific committee member of The ADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2004, (14-16 December 2004, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Program chair of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004) (Sept. 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China)
• Program chair of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004) (Sept. 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China)
• Program committee member of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'04) (November 1-4, 2004, Brighton, UK)
• Program committee member of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004) (September 27-29, 2004, Erfurt, Germany)
• Program committee member of Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'04), (25-27 August 2004, Exeter, UK)
• Program committee member of the Eighth Pacific-Rim Internatonal Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004) (9-13 August 2004, Auckland, New Zealand)
• Program committee member of International Workshop Monitoring, Security, and Rescue Tasks in Multi-Agent Systems 2004 (MSRAS 2004) (June 7-9, 2004, Poland)
• Program committee member of the Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-04) (May 26-28, 2004, Calton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia)
• Program committee member of the 7th HPDM (High-performance and distributed data mining) workshop, in conjunction with 4th SIAM Conference on Data Mining (24 April 2004, Orlando, Florida)
• Program committee member of the Fourth SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM'04) (April 22-24, 2004, the Hyatt Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida, USA)
• Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of Fifth International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2004) (15-17 September 2004, Malaga, Spain)
• Program committee member of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-04) (March 29-31, 2004, Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan)
• Program committee member of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03) (November 19-22, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA)
• Program committee member of the IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing (IKS 2003) (November 17-19 2003, Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
• Program committee member of the 1st International Workshop on e-Science (8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal)
• Program committee member of the 7th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2003) (August 27-29, 2003, Helsinki, Finland)
• Program committee member of the ACM International Workshop on e-Science and Grid Computing (21 June 2003, San Francisco, USA) in conjunction with 17th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing.
• Program chair of the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'03) (October 28-31, 2003, Maebashi, Japan)
• Conference chair of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003) (October 13-17, 2003, Halifax, Canada)
• Conference chair of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003) (October 13-17, 2003, Halifax, Canada)
• Program committee member of the 4th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2003) (September 1-5, 2003, Praha, Czech Republic).
• Advisory committee member of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03) (Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003)
• Program committee member of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'03) (July 14-18th, 2003, the Sofitel in Melbourne, Australia)
• Conference chair of the Second International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'03) (May 29-31, Chongqing, China)
• Advisory board member of the 9th. International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'03) (May 26-28, Chongqing, China)
• Conference chair of 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'02) (November, 2002, Maebashi, Japan)
• Program committee member of the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) (18-22 November 2002, Singapore)
• Program chair of the Third International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'02) (October, 2002, Penn State Great Valley, USA)
• Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of Third International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2002) (September 25-27, 2002, Bologna, Italy)
• Program committee member of International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology (ICIIT-02) (September 22-25, 2002, Beijing, China)
• Program committee member of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2002) (September 18-20, 2002, Madrid, Spain)
• Program committee member of the Third International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2002) (September 2-6, 2002, Aix-en-Province, France).
• Program committee member of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'02) (July, 2002, Bologna, Italy)
• Program committee member of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-02) (July 23-26th, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
• Program committee member of the 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'02) (June, 2002, Lyon, France)
• Program committee member of the sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'02) (May 6-8, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan)
• Publicity Chair of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01) (November 29 - December 2, 2001, Silicon Valley, California, USA)
• Program committee member of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01) (November 29 - December 2, 2001, Silicon Valley, California, USA)
• Program chair of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2001) (October 23-26, 2001, Maebashi City, Japan)
• Program chair of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2001) (October 23-26, 2001, Maebashi City, Japan)
• Program committee member of the Third International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS 2001) (October 15-18, 2001, Singapore)
• Program committee member of the Third International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2001) (September 3-7, 2001, Munich, Germany)
• Program committee member of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2001) (September 6-8, 2001, Modena, Italy)
• Program committee member of the IJCAI'01 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (August 4-6, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA)
• Program committee member of International ICSC Workshop on GRANULAR COMPUTATION (GrC 2001) (June 19-22 2001, Bangor, Wales, UK)
• Program committee member of Workshop on Autonomy-Oriented Computation (AOC) at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS 2001) (May 28-June 1, 2001, Montreal, Canada)
• Steering and program committee member of JSAI International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing (May 20-22, 2001, Shimane, Japan)
• Program committee member of JSAI Internatinal KDD Challenge 2001 Workshop (JKDD01) (May 22, 2001, Shimane, Japan)
• Program committee member of the fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2001) (April 16-18, 2001, Hong Kong)
• Program committee member of the 10th International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI 2000) (November 18-21, 2000, Kuwait)
• Organizing committee member of the 2000 International Conference on Information Society in The 21st Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS 2000) (November 5-8, 2000, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan)
• Advisory board member and publicity chair of the second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2000) (October 16-19, 2000, Banff, Canada)
• Program committee member of the twelfth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2000) (October 11-14, 2000, Charlotte, NC, USA)
• Program committee member of the fourth European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-2000) (Sept. 13-16, 2000, Lyon, France)
• Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of 2nd International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2000) (July 5-7, 2000, Cambridge University, UK)
• Program committee member of the fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000) (April 18-20, 2000, Kyoto, Japan)
• Special session chair on Granular Computing and Data Mining (GrC-DM) in the The Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology (FTT2000) (February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
• Program committee member of International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Application (AISTA 2000) (February 2-4, 2000, Canberra, Australia)
• Program committee member of the Information Society conference 2000 (Slovenia).
• Program chair of the first Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'99)
• Program chair of the seventh International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing (RSFDGrC'99)
• Program chair of the third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'99)
• Program committee member of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-99)
• Program committee member of the third European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'99)
• Program committee member of the eleventh International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'99)
• Program committee member of PACLING'99 (Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics)
• Organizing committee member of Data Mining and Machine Learning Workshop in the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-98)
• Program committee member of the second European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'98)
• Session chair of the second European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'98)
• Program committee member of 1st International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'98)
• Program committee member of the Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at 11th International Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS-98)
• Program committee member of the second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'98)
• Session chair of the second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'98)
• Program committee member of the sixth International Workshop on Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98)
• Session chair of the sixth International Workshop on Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98)
• Program committee member of AI Application Symposium'97 (High Technology Symposium Yamaguchi'97)
• Program committee member of the 1997 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX-97)