Professional Activities

Journal Conference

• Area Editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR)
• Special Section Editor of Cognitive Computation
• Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM).
• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI).
• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Intelligent Systems (JIS)
  
  
• Special Issue Editor of Fundamenta Informaticae on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology 2011 (RSKT'11), Vol. 126, No. 4, 2013.
• Special Issue Editor of Nerocomputing on Recent Developments on Natural Computation (ICNC'07 Special issue), Vol. 72, Nos. 13-15, 2009.
• Special Issue Editor of Information Fusion on Web information fusion, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2008.
• Special Issue Editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on Probabilistic rough sets, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2008.

Conference Journal

• IJCRS'23, Conf Chiar, Oct 5-8, 2023, Krakow, Poland.

• IJCRS'22, PC Chair.

• CAI'20

• MIWAI'19, Nov 17-19, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• IJCRS'19
• KDIR'19
• CAI'19
• ICMMI'19, October 2-4, 2019, Cracow, Poland

• MIWAI'18
• CAI'18
• IEA/AIE 2018, June 25 - 28, 2018, Montreal.
• IJCRS'18, August 20-24, 2018, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
• IPMU'18, June 11-15, 2018, Cadiz, Spain.
• KDIR'18
• ICBK'18, Nov 17-18, Singapore.
• WI'18, December 4-6, 2018, Santiag, Chile.

• The 11th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI'17), Brunei, November 20-22, 2017.
  • Program Committee member
• 2015 international Joint Conference On Rough Sets (IJCRS'17), Olsztyn, Poland, July 3-7, 2017
  • Program Committee member
  • Steering Committee member
• The 30th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'17), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 16-19, 2017.
  • Program Committee member

• The 9th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI'15), Fuzhou, China, November 13-15, 2015.
  • Program Committee member
• 2015 international Joint Conference On Rough Sets (IJCRS'15), Tianjin, China, Nov 20-23, 2015.
  • Program Committee member
• The 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'15), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2-5, 2015.
  • Program Committee member

• The International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'14), Shanghai, China, Oct 24-26, 2014.
  • Program Committee member
  • Invited Plenary Speaker
• The 2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC 2014), Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014.
  • Publicity Chair
• The 1st International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Computational Sustainability and Meaningful Use (CSMU 2014), Ottawa, Canada, August 7-8, 2014.
  • Program Committee member
• 2014 Joint Rough Set Symposium, Granada & Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 2014.
  • Program Committee member
• The 27th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI14), Montreal, Quebec, May 6-9, 2014.
  • Program Committee member

• The 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI13), Atlanta, USA, Nov. 17-20, 2013.
  • Program Committee Vice Chair
• CRSSC-CWI-CGrC2013, Oct 18-20, Zhangzhou, China.
  • Keynote Speaker
• The 2013 Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2013) Halifax, Canada, Oct 11-14, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 4th Rough Set Theory Workshop, Halifax, Canada, Oct 10, 2013
  • Program Committee Chair
• The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR'13) , Vilamoura, Portugal, Sept 19-22, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member
• 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM'13) and the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI'13), Guilin, China, Aug 13-15, 2013.
  • Keynote Speaker
• 26th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'13), Regina, Canada, May 5-8, 2013.
  • Program Committee Chair

• The 2012 Joint Rough Set Symposium, Chengdu, China, 17-20 Aug, 2012.
  • Program Committee Chair
• The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, Aug 11-13, 2012.
  • Program Committee Member

• The 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI'11), Tumkur, India, December 14-16, 2011.
• Program Committee Member
• the International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR'11), Paris, France, Oct 26-29, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• Third International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, Dalian, China, Oct 14-16.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 6th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'11), Banff, Canada, Oct 9-12, 2011.
  • Program Committee Chair
• The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'11), Lyon, France, August 22-27, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC11), Sapporo, Japan, Aug 11-13, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI'11), Las Vegas, August 3-5, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• 19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems Warsaw, Poland, June 28 - June 30, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'11), Moscow, Russia, June 27 - June 30, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member
• Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'11), Saint John's, Canada, May 25 - 27, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member

• International Workshop on Web Mining and Information Retrieval (WMIR2010) Cairo, Egypt, November 29 - December 01, 2010.
  • Program Committee Chair
• The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2010) Cairo, Egypt, November 29 - December 01, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 5th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'10) Beijing, China, Oct 15-17, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'10), Toronto, Canada, August 31-September 3, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member
• 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Silicon Valley, August 14-16, 2010
  • Program Committee Member
• The 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, August 4-6, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Comupting (RSCTC'10), Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member

• International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining & Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'09), Delhi, India, December 16-18, 2009
  • Program Committee Member
• The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09), Tumkur, India, December 16-18, 2009.
• Program Committee Member
• The 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2009), Chengdu, China, December 11-13, 2009
  • Program Committee Member
• 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Computation and Intelligent System (ICIS'09), Shanghai, China, November 20-22, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR'09), Madeira, Portugal, October 5-8, 2009
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions (ICMMI'09), The Beskids - Kocierz Pass, Poland, September 25-27, 2009
  • Program Committee Member
• The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'09), Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 2009 (IRI09), Las Vegas, USA, August 10-12, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'09), Gold Coast, Australia, July 14-16 2009
  • Program Committee Member
  • Special Session Co-chair
• 2009 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Nanchang, China, Aug 17-19, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 2009 International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'09) Beijing, China, August 17-19, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009 Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009
  • Program Committee Member
• The 1st International Workshop on Rough Set Theory (RST'09), Milano, Italy, May 25-27, 2009
  • Panelist
• The 2nd IEEE Symposium of Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM'09), Nashville, TN, March 30 - 02 April 2, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member

• The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member
• The International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'08), Akron, Ohio, USA, October 23-25, 2008.
  • Publicity Chair
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'08), Chengdu, China, Oct 10-12, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 9th World Congress on the Management of eBusiness, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Oct 5-7, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT'08), Daejeon, Korea, Aug 28-30, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member
• 2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'08), Hangzhou, China, Aug 26-28, 2008.
  • Invited Plenary Speaker
  • Program Committee Member
• North American Simulation Technology Conference 2008 (NASTEC'08), McGill University, Montreal, Canada August 13-15, 2008
  • Invited Speaker
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 2008 (IRI08), Las Vegas, USA, July 13-15, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member
• 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008) Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.
  • Technical Committee Member
• The Third International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'08), Chengdu, P.R. China, May 17-19, 2008.
  • Publicity Chair
  • Program Committee Member
• 2008 International Forum on Knowledge Technology, Chongqing, China, May 13-14, 2008.
  • Invited Speaker
  • Panelist
  • Session Chair

• The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, India, December 17-19, 2007.
• Program Committee Member
• The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
  • Tutorial Speaker
  • Session Chair
• The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing(GrC 2007), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
  • Session Chair
• The 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
• WIC Summer School 2007, Beijing, China, August 27-29, 2007.
  • Invited speaker
• The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07), Haikou, China, August 24-27, 2007.
  • Program Committee Chair
• CRSSC-CWI-CGrC 2007, Taiyuan, China, Aug 19-23, 2007
  • Invited Speaker (plenary lecture)
• Third International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'07), Harbin, China, August 6-8, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
• 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology (FTT'07), Salt Lake City, July 15-22, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
• International conference on Rough Sets and Emerging Intelligent Systems Paradigms (RSEISP'07), Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKD'07), Toronto, Canada, May 16-18, 2007.
  • Program Committee Chair
• Regina Workshop on Rough Sets and Granular Computing Regina, Canada, May 10-12, 2007.
  • Program Committee Chair
• SPIE conference on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, and Data Networks security 2007 (DS21), Orlando, USA, April 9-13, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 2007 IEEE Symposium on Multi-Criterion Decision Making (MCDM'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member

• The 3rd International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems (WSS'06), Hong Kong, December 18, 2006.
  • Program Committee Chair
• ICDM 2006 Workshop on Foundations of Data Mining and Novel Techniques in High Dimensional Structural and Unstructured Data, Hong Kong, December 18, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06), Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, Nov 13-15, 2006.
  • Publicity Chair
• The International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS '06), Santa Clara, Cuba, December 5 - 8, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT'06), Cheju, Korea, Nov 9- 11, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• the Fifth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'06), Kobe, Japan, Nov 6-8, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• The First International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKD'06), Chongqing, China, July 24-26, 2006
  • Program Committee Member
  • Panelist
  • Session Chair
• International Forum on Theory of Granular Computing from Rough Set Perspective, Nanchang, China, July 20-21, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• the IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services (WTAS 2006), Calgary, Canada, July 17-19, 2006.
  • Conference Chair
• 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'06), Vancover, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
  • Best Student Paper Award Committee Member
• The 7th World Congress on the Management of eBusiness, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 14-15, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006.
  • Workshop Chair
  • Program Committee Member
  • Session Chair
• The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05), India, December 20-22, 2005.
• Program Committee Member
• SPIE 2006 conference on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, and Data Networks security 2006 (OR21), Orlando, USA, April 17-21, 2006.
  • Program Committee Member
• ICDM Workshop on Foundation of Semantic Oriented Data and Web Mining, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 27, 2005
• Program Committee Member
• IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), Compiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005.
  • Program Committee Member
• The 10th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, University of Regina, Canada, Aug 31- Sept 3, 2005.
  • Workshop Chair
  • Plenary Talk Session Chair
• The 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD) 2005
  • Reviewer
• The 1st International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC), 2005
  • Reviewer
• ICNC'05, FSKD'05, Changsha, China, Aug 27-19, 2005.
  • Keynote Speaker Session Chair
• The 5th (Chinese) National Conference on Rough Sets and Soft Computing (CRSSC'05), Anshan, China, Aug 1-5, 2005
  • Invited Speaker: Granular Computing for Machine Learning
  • Panelist
• IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2005.
  • Publicity Chair
  • Program Committee Member
• The IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services (WTAS 2005) Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 4-6, 2005.
  • Program Committee Member
• SPIE 2005 Conference on Data mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, and Data Network Security 2005 (OR 24), Orlando, USA, 28 March - 1 April 2005
  • Program Committee Member

• First International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW'04), Tokyo, Japan, November 20, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member
• ICDM 2004 Workshop on Foundations of Data Mining, Brighton, UK, November 01, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member
• IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member
• The Second International Workshop on Web-based Supporst Systems (WSS'04), Beijing, China, September 20, 2004.
  • Program Committee Chair
  • Program Committee Member
• First International Workshop on Semantic Web Mining and Reasoning, Beijing, China, September 20, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member
• Program Committee member and Panelist of The Fourth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2004), Uppsala, Sweden, June 1-4, 2004.
  
  • Program Committee Member
  • Panelist
    • Granular Computing
    • Foundations of Data mining
• SPIE 2004 conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology VI (OR43), Orlando, USA, April 12-16, 2004.
  • Program Committee Member

• ICDM 2003 Workshop on Foundation and New Directions of Data Mining, Melbourne, Florida, USA, November 19 - 22, 2003.
  • Program Committee Member
• Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems (WSS'03), Halifax, Canada, October 13, 2003.
  • Program Committee Chair
  • Program Committee Member
• The 9th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC2003), Chongqing, China, May 26-29, 2003.
  • Program Committee Member