Activities

Membership & Chairship

• Member, IEEE CIS ETTC, '12 - '15

• Chair, Task Force on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Collective Systems at IEEE CIS ETTC, '12 - '15

Editor-in-Chief

• • International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence, IRMA, IGI Global Press, NJ, USA, Since December 2008 - May 2013

Associate Editor

• • International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), IRMA, IGI Global Press, NJ, USA, Since January 2009 -

  • International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation (IJSIECA), Ashdin Publishing, NY, USA, since July 2010 - July 2013

  • International Journal of Computer Systems and Applications, International Scientific Press, since December 2011 - July 2013

  • ICST Transactions on e-Business, ICST, EU., since January 2011 -

Editor

• • Industrial Networks and Intelligent System, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

Reviewer Fund/Journal

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings Survey Scholar in 2024

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings Survey Scholar in 2023

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings Survey Scholar in 2022

• Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal, 2019

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018

• Czech Science Foundation, 2017

• Research Councils of United Kingdom, (RCUK), 2011

• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, (TAAS), 2010, 2011

• Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2008, 2009

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD), 2008

Plenary Talks / Keynote Speeches

• • World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Mumbai, India, Dec. 11-14, 2011 - Title: "Human-Machine Interaction in Time-Critical Communications".

  • Service Computation 2011, Rome, Italy, September 25-30, 2011 - Title: "Nature-Inspired Optimization: Human and Animal Decision-Making"

  • International Conference On Computational Intelligence And Communication Networks (CICN), Bhopal, India, Nov 26, 2010 - Nov 28, 2010 - Title: "Bilateral Decision Making Under Time Pressure: Heuristics v.s. Strategy"

Invited Talk

• • The 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM), National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), Hualien, Taiwan, November 24-27, 2017 - Title: "Collective Intelligence Modeling in Time Sensitive Decision Making".

  • Osaka Prefecture University, Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Osaka, Japan: Title: "From biology to computational intelligence, ant trail prediction by statistical analisis and its application to health care for the elderly", March 2, 2016.

  • The SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Oarland, FL, USA, April 25-29, 2011 - DSS11: Conference: Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2011  "Maximizing gain to time-cost of human-machine interactive decision-making under asymmetrical time constraints", April 25, 2011.

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seminar, December 16, 2010 - Title: "Time-cost minimization of a decision making process under asynchronous time constraints in bilateral negotiations"

  • International Conference on Digital Libraries, TERI, New Delhi, India, February 23-26, 2010 - Title: "Wait Until Half Time? It Must Be Late: A Strategic Time Point in Negotiation and Decision Making"

Lectures/Seminars

• • An ant swarm behavior based on quorum sensing: a new direction for bio-inspired computing in optimization at University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science, September 7, 2012.

  • An analysis of the ant swarm behavior for quorum sensing: a new direction for bio-inspired computing in optimization, University of Birmingham, UK, August 31, 2012.

  • An analysis of the ant swarm behavior for quorum sensing: a new direction for bio-inspired computing in optimization, University of Surrey, UK, August 28, 2012.

  • An analysis of the ant swarm behavior for quorum sensing: a new direction for bio-inspired computing in optimization: Theory and Practice, Brunel University, UK, August 16, 2012. 

Edition of Reference Book

• Information Technology for Intellectual Property Protection: Interdisciplinary Advancements

Edition of Conference Proceedings

• • Proceedings of the 4th International Conferene on Internet and Web Applications (ICIW)  24-28 May 2009, Venice/Mestre, Italy, Mark Perry, Hideyasu Sasaki, Matthias Ehmann, Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, and Oana Dini

Reference Editorial Advisor

• Handbook of Research on Service Intelligence and Service Science: Evolutionary Technologies and Challenges, IGI Global Press

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Advisory Chair 

• • Service Computaton, Rome, Italy, September 25-30, 2011

  • ICIW 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12, 2010 

Publicity Co-Chair

• • The 9th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM), Coimbatore, India, 2010

Program Co-Chair

• • IBICA, Online, December 16-18, 2020 

  • CIW-SLAECE Track, Barcelona, Spain, May 8-15, 2010

  • ICIW-SLAECE Track, Venice, Italy, May 24-28, 2009 

Symposium Organizing Co-Chair

• IEEE WISE 2010

Workshops Organizing Co-Chair

• • MINES, 2010

Special Session Organizing Co-Chair

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  • ICIW 2010, SerComp Track, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12, 2010

  • International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), Malacca, Malaysia, December 4-7, 2009 Special Session on Social Engineering and Soft Computing

Advisory Committee Member

• • The Eighth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing SERVICE COMPUTATION 2016, March 20 - 24, Rome, Italy

Program Committee Member (Current):

• • 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2018), Swarm Intelligence Symposium, November 18 – 21, Bengaluru, India

  • 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017), Swarm Intelligence Symposium Special Session Swarm Dynamics, November 27 - December, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Program Committee Member (Past):

• • 2017 The Seventh International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies 2017, November 11 - 13, Nagpur, India

  • 2016 The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (ESN 2016) in INCoS-2016, September 7 - 9, Ostrava, Czech Republic

  • 2012 IEEE International Conference on Service 

  • 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011), October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

  • 2nd International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2010), Paris, France, 2010 

  • CSNT 2011

  • 5th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2010), November 4-6, 2010, Fukuoka, Japan

  • CICN 2010

  • International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES 2010), November 4–6, 2010, Nanjing, PR China

  • ACM MEDES, Thaland, 2010

  • 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010), 20-22 October, 2010, Shanghai, China

  • ICADL, Australia, July  ,2003- 2010

  • International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), Malacca, Malaysia, December 4-7, 2009

  • ACM International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES), Lyon, France, October 27-30, 2009

  • SOMK in conjunction with IEEE ICEBE, Macau, P.R. China, October 21-23, 2009

  • LAoIS in conjuncition in conjunction with the CAISE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 6-8, 2009

  • ICIW, 2008 -

  • ICADL, 2002 -

  • Euro-Japan Conference on Knowledge Bases and Information Modeling, 2006-

  • LawTech, 2004-2006