Professional Activities

Served Research Conferences

• Program committee member, the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012)

• Program committee member, the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'12)

• Program committee member, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'12)

• Program committee member, the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'12)

• Program committee member, the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'12)

• Program committee member, the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical-Informatics (ITBAM'12)

• Program committee member, the 5th International Confernce on Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICINIS'12)

• Program committee member, the 3rd International Confernce on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC'12)

• Advisory committee member, the International Conference on Innovations in Computers, Information and Communications (ICICIC'12)

• Program committee member, the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'11)

• Program committee member, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'11)

• Program committee member, the 8th International Conference & Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World (CEWIT'11)

• Program committee member, the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical-Informatics (ITBAM'11)

• Program committee member, the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'11)

• Program committee member, the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB'11)

• Program committee member, the 2011 International Conference on Advances in Computing (ICAC'11)

• Program committee member, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'10)

• Program committee member, the 11th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'10)

• Program committee member, the 21th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'10)

• Program committee member, the 1st International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical-Informatics (ITBAM'10)

• Program committee member, the 12th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'10)

• Program committee member, the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09)

• Program committee member, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09)

• Program committee member, the Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2009

• Program committee member, the 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08)

• Program committee member, the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'08)

• Program committee member, the 9th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'08)

• Program committee member, the 2nd International Conference on BioInformatics Research and Development (BIRD'08)

• Program committee member, the 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'08)

• Program committee member, the SIGMOD Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR'07)

• Track co-chair, "Data Warehousing and Mining" Track of the 18th Annual IRMA International Conference (IRMA'07)

• Program committee member, the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'07)

• Program committee member, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2006)

• Program committee member, the 4th International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG2006)

• Program committee member, the 2006 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06)

• Program committee member, the 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'06)

• Program committee member, the 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)

• Program committee member, the 2005 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'05)

• Program committee member, the 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC'05)

• Program committee member, the 7th Asia Pacific Web Conference (ApWeb'05)

• Session chair, the 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04)

• Program committee member, the 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04)

• Session chair, the 2004 International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04)

• Program committee member, the 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (ApWeb'04)

• Program committee member, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'02)

• Program committee member,  the 29th Annual Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM'02)

• Session chair, the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'02)

• Session chair, the 3rd International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'02)

• Publicity chair and program committee member,  the 2nd International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'01)

• Publicity chair,  the 16th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'00)

• Program committee member, the 10th International Database Symposium on Mobile, XML and Post-relational Databases (IDS'00)

• Program committee member, the 1st International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE'00)

• Program committee member, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'99)

• Program committee member, the 1999 International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems (DWACOS'99)

• Workshop chair, workshop on "Query Optimization in Advanced Database Systems" of the CASCON'99

• Program committee member, the 11th ISCA International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE'98)

• Co-editor, the Proceedings of 1998 ACME VIII International Conference

• Session chair, the 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS'96)

• Workshop co-chair, workshop on "Query Processing and Optimization" of the 4th National Conference on Databases in China (1985)

Other Professional Services

• Editor-in-Chief, the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (2010 - present)

• Editor, the Journal of Computers (2008 - present)

• Editorial Board Member, the International Journal on Advances in Software (2012 - present)

• Ex-officio Member of ISCA Board of Directors, the International Society for Computers and Their Applications (2010 - present)

• Member of Executive Committee and Information Management Coordinator, the IEEE Southeast Michigan (SEM) Section (2012 - present)

• Chair of the Information Management Committee, the IEEE Southeast Michigan (SEM) Section (2012 - present)

• Panelist, US National Science Foundation (NSF), Information Integration and Informatics program (III, 2012)

• Expert reviewer, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, 2007 - )

• Associate Editor, the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (2005 - 2009)

• Panelist, US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Information and Knowledge Management program (IKM, 2005)