Research Activities

  • Guest Editor: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal - Special Issue on Recent Advances in Immune Computation. Applied Soft Computing Journal -- Special Issue on Recent Advances in Immune Computation.

  • Associate Editor: Applied Computing and Intelligence

  • Chair: `Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic’ session at `The Int'l Conf. on Swarm Intelligence’, Harbin, China.

  • Publicity chair: The first international Metaheuristics Summer School – MESS 2018, Taormina, Italy.

  • Special Sessions Co-organizer: FedCSIS/RSTA 2022 (04-07 September, Sofia, Bulgaria) – Track on Rough Sets (theory and applications), IEEE CEC 2021 (28 June – 01 July, Krakow, Poland), IEEE CEC 2020 (19-24 July, Glasgow, UK), IEEE CEC 2019 (10-13 June, Wellington, New Zealand), IEEE CEC 2018 (8-13 July, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Special Session on Artificial Immune Systems - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.

  • Regular Program Committee Member in [extract]: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - The In’l Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics - Int'l Congress on Systems Immunology, Immuno-informatics & Immune-Computation - The 7th Special Session on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining at The 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation - The Int'l Conf. on Automation, Cognitive Science, Optics, Micro Electro-Mechanical System, and Information Technology - The ACS/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Systems and Applications - Int'l Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet - Annual Int’l Conf. on digital economy.

  • Reviewer in Journals [extract]: Natural Computing, Springer - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation - IEEE Transactions Industrial Informatics - Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier - Int'l Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Springer - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence - Engineering Applications of artificial Intelligence, Elsevier - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier – Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier – Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier.

  • Reviewer in International Conferences [extract]: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation; The Int'l Conf. on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences; The Int'l Conf. on Modelling, Simulation and Applied Optimization; The Int'l Computing Conf. in Arabic.

  • Invited researcher & research visits: Granada Excellence Network of Innovation Laboratory, Spain (02-15/02, 2015 – 09-17/10, 2018), Computer Science Laboratory (LIPN), University Paris-North - 13, France (14/04 – 12/05, 2017, 25/10 – 03/11, 2017), Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Epidemiology Department, Paris, France (06/03 – 20/04, 2018, 28/09 – 05/10, 2018, 02/01 – 08/02, 2019)

  • Secondments [extract]: Municipality of Thira, Santoriny Greece -- Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Epidemiology Department, Paris, France -- SEMOS Company, Quality Audit Department, Nabeul, Tunisia -- ESSID Company, Quality Audit Department, Nabeul, Tunisia -- Tunisie Télécom Company, Telecommunication Sector, Nabeul, Tunisia.

  • Other: Advisory Board Member for the European Researchers’ Night (Tunisia)

  • Evaluator for ICT projects within the European Commission (invited by could not serve- conflict of interest).