Professional Activities and Public Service
1. Member of Mathematics Speaking Program for high school students, University of New Haven, Sept. 1985 to May 1987.
2. Member of curriculum committee, School of Arts and Science, University of New Haven, Sept. 1986 to May 1987.
3. Member of Faculty Senate, University of New Haven, May 1987 to August 1988.
4. Session Chairman for the Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Chicago, IL June 21-23, 1990.
5. Program Committee of the 1991, 1992, 1993 Long Island Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics.
6. Program Committee of the 1994 Academic and Professional Conference on Information Systems, August 1994, Flushing, New York.
7. Session Chair, 1997 Multimedia Technology and Application Symposium, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
8. Session Chair, the 3rd Local Business Case Study Conference, 1998, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
9. Program Co-Chairman, the Ninth Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology and Applications, September 1998, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
10. Session Chair, the Sixth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 1998, Taiwan.
11. Member of Personnel Committee, I-Shou University, September 1998-2001.
12. Session Chair, the Eighth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, August 1999, Taipei, Taiwan.
13. Session Chair, the 3rd International Conferecne on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, August 1999, Adelaide, Australia.
14. Session Chair, Conference on Management Development, National PinDong Polytechnical University, November 1999, PinDong, Taiwan.
15. Session Chair, the 4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 1999, ChungHwa, Taiwan.
16. Session Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, May 2000, San Antonio, USA.
17. Session Organizer, the IEEE International Conference on System Man and Cybernetics, October 2000, Nashville, USA
18. Session Chair, the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2000, Taipei, Taiwan.
19. Session Organizer, the Nineth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, July 2001, Vancouver, Canada.
20. Program Co-Chairman, the Nineth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2001, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
21. Member of Personnel Review Committee, I-Shou University, August 2001- July 2002.
22. Program Committee, The Tenth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2002, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
23. Session Chair, in the 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, November 2002, Singapore.
24. Session chair, Hardware and Software Engineering for Reuse, of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 15 – 17, 2005, Las Vegas, USA. (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI05/).
25. International program committee of 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, December 2 – 5, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (http://taai2005.nuk.edu.tw).
26. International program committee of 2nd International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15 – 17, 2006, Colombo, Sri Lanka (http://www.icia2006.org/).
27. Vice President, 2007 Annual Convention of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, New York, USA, 2007.(http://www.caaps.us/)
28. Program Committee, the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2007, Yunlin, Taiwan.
29. Program Committee, the 2007 National Computer Symposium, December 2007, Taichun, Taiwan.
30. Co-organizor of Machine Learning Application Invited Session, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July 2008, Kumin, China.
31. Session Chair, Taiwan Academic Network Conference 2008, October 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
32. Program Committee, the 8th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application, November 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
33. Program Committee, the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2008, I-Lan, Taiwan.
34. Program Committee, the Twenty Second International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, September 2009, Tainan, Taiwan.
35. Workshop Committee, “Computational Intelligence Approaches for Ontology-based Knowledge Discovery”, workshop in the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence, Intelligent Agent Technology, September 2009, Milan, Italy.
36. Honary Workshop Chair, “Ubiquitous e-Service and Business Process Orchestration”, workshop in the 2009 IEEE International Conference on NISS.
37. International Program Committee, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application, November 2009, Pita, Italy.
38. Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2009) during December 09-11, 2009 in Coimbatore, India.
39. Program Committee, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), December 04-07, 2009, Malacca, Malaysia.
40. Program Committee, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking, December 12-14, 2009, ChengDu, China.
41. Program Committee, the Seventeenth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
42. Keynote Speaker, Second Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, March 24-26, 2010, Hue City, Vietnam.
43. Program Committee, the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July 11-14, 2010, Qingdao, Shangdong, China.
44. Workshop Co-chair, the Second International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision Support, August 9-11, 2010, Odense, Denmark.
45. Session chair, the 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 9-11, 2010, Odense, Denmark.
46. Program Committee 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC), Aug 14-16, 2010, Silicon Valley, California, USA.
47. Program Committee, the Second International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC 2010), November 1-4, 2010, Tainan, Taiwan.
48. International Program Committee, the 10th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
49. Program Committee, 2010 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2010), November 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
50. Program Committee, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking (SocialNet’10), Decmber 18-20, 2010, Hangzhou, China.
51. Program Committee, 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010), December 4-6, 2010, Singapore.
52. Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT 2011), March 2011, Bali, Indonesia.
53. Program Committee, 2011 Natioanl Conference on Web Intelligence and Applications (NCWIA), April 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
54. Session Chair, IEA/AIE 2011, June, 2011, Syracuse, USA.
55. International Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), July 2011, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
56. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July 10–13, 2011, Guilin, China.
57. Genral Conference Co-Chair, the 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), July 25–27, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
58. Program Committee of Databases and Data Mining track, 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS2011), September 2011, Tirana, Albania.
59. Program Committee, the Third IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2011), Sep.27-30, 2011, Dalina, China.
60. Program Committee (cybernetic track), the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
61. Session Chair, Special Session on Granular Computing, the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
62. Program Chair, the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, November 8–10, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
63. Program Committee, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), November 22–24, 2011, Cordoba, Spain.
64. Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2011), December 2011, Malacca, Malaysia.
65. Technical Program Committee, 2011 International Workshop on Internet of Things and Pervasive Services (IoT-PS11), 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems, December 2011, Mannheim, Germany.
66. Editorial Board, International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN) Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2011 - 2014.
67. Program Committee, International Workshop on Networked Virtual Enterprises (in conjunction with AINA-2012), March 2012, Fukuoka, Japan.
68. Plenary Speech, Fourth Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, March 19-21, 2012, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
69. Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organization (KMO), July 11–13, 2012, Salamanca, Spain.
70. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July 15–18, 2012, Xian, China.
71. Program Committee, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, August 11–13, 2012, Hangzhou, China.
72. Program Committee, 2012 International Symposium on Foundations and Frontiers of Data Mining (FFDM), August 11–13, 2012, Hangzhou, China.
73. Program Committee, the 2012 4th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2012), August 21-24, 2012, Seoul, Korea.
74. Program Committee, 2012 Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, September 5-8, 2012, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
75. Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics (ICCSII), September 23-26, 2012, Bandung, Indonesia.
76. Program Committee, The First International Conference on Data Analytics, September 23-28, 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
77. Conference Co-Chair, the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA), September 26–28, 2012, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
78. Program Committee, 2012 6th International Conference on Network and System Security, November 21-23, 2012, Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, China.
79. Editorial Reviewer Board, Artificial Intelligence Research (ISSN 1927-6974, EISSN 1927-6982).
80. Program Committee, Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Business Collaboration, 2012 4th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Technologies and Applications (ICCCI 2012) November 28-30, 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
81. Program Committee, 2012 International Conference on Advacnes Science and Contemporary Engineering, October 24–25, 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia.
82. Program Committee, the 12th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), November 27–29, 2012, Kochi, India.
83. Program Committee, the 2012 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), November 16 – 18, Tainan, Taiwan.
84. Program Committee, 2012 International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), December 3-5, 2012, Bali, Indonesia.
85. Program Committee, 2012 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), December 4–7, 2012, Pune, India.
86. Program Committee, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2012), December 10-13, 2012, Brunei.
87. Program Committee, International Workshop on Networked Virtual Enterprises, March 25 – 28, 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
88. Program Committee, International Conference on Information Communication Technology (ICT-EurAsia 2013), March 25 – 29, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
89. Program committee, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (IEEE CYBCONF 2013), June 13 – 15, 2013, Lausanne Switzerland.
90. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July 14–17, 2013, Tianjin, China.
91. Program Committee, 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, July 16 – 18, 2013, New York City, USA.
92. Program Committee, 2013 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), August 12 - 14, 2013, Uppsala, Sweden.
93. Program Chair, 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organization (KMO), September 9–13, 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
94. Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Business Collaboration (in ICCCI 2013), September 11 – 13, 2013, Craiova, Romania.
95. Program Committee, The Second International Conference on Data Analytics, September 29 – October 3, 2013, Porto, Portugal.
96. Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO13), 2013, Spain.
97. Program Committee, the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing.
98. Program Committee, 2013 International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), December 2-4, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
99. Program Committee, 2013 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), December 4–6, 2013, Tunis, Tunisia.
100. Program Committee, the 13th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), December 8-10, 2013, Malaysia.
101. Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM).
102. Program Committee, 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Machines (ICIM), May 1-4, 2014, Tunis, Tunisia.
103. Program Co-Chair, the First Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications (ECC), June 13-15, 2014, Shenzhen, China.
104. Advisory Committee, 2014 Conference on Digital Life Technology (DLT 2014), June 20-21, 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
105. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July, 2014, Lanzhou, China.
106. Program Committee, 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST), August 27-29, 2014, Sabah, Malaysia.
107. Conferece Chair, the First Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference, September 13-14, 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
108. Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), Sept. 24-25, 2014, Seoul, South Korea.
109. Program Committee, 2014 IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC), Sept. 24-26, 2014, Hague, Netherlands.
110. Program Committee, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2014), Oct. 5-8, 2014, San Diego, California, USA.
111. Conferece Chair, 2014 International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Applications (iFuzzy), November 26-28, 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
112. Program Committee, 2014 International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), December 4-6, 2014, Hanoi, Vietnam.
113. Conferece Chair, 12th Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), December 8-10, 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
114. Program Committee, 1st International Symposium on Independent Computing (ISIC), December 9-12, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA.
115. Program Committee, 2014 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), December 14–16, 2014, Kuwait.
116. Program Committee, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2015), May 26-29, 2015, Baltimore, USA.
117. Progam Committee, 2015 the 20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS20-2015), May 27-29, 2015, Bucharest, Romania.
118. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July, 2015, Guangzhou, China.
119. Conferece Chair, the Second Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), September 1-3, 2015, Matsuyama, Japan.
120. Program Committee, 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2015), September 7-9, 2015, Manchester, United Kingdom.
121. Progrma Committee, the 36th International Conference of Information Systems Architecture and Technology (ISAT), September 20-22, 2015 Karpacz, Poland.
122. Program Committee, the 7th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2015), September 22-24, 2015, Qinhuangdao, China.
123. Program Committee, the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, Cybernetics (IEEE SMC), October 9-12, 2015, Hong Kong, China.
124. Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Scalable Information Systems for Big Data (INFOSCALE), October 21-23, 2015, Hue, Vietnam.
125. Program Committee, Workshop on “Time Series Data Analysis and its Applications (TSDAA 2015)”, in International Symposium of Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence, November 16-18, 2015, Japan.
126. Program Committee, the 2015 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), November 20-22, Tainan, Taiwan.
127. Program Committee, the 11th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 15), December 5-6, 2015, Bhubaneswar, India.
128. Program Committee, the 15th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), December 7-9, 2015, Marrakesh, Morocco.
129. Program Committee, The 5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technology (WICT’15), December 7-9, 2015, Marrakesh, Morocco.
130. Program Committee, 13th Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), December 10-12, 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
131. Program Committee, 2015 International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), December 10-12, 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
132. Program Committee, the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA), December 16-18, 2015, Kochi, India.
133. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July, 2016, Jeju Island, South Korea.
134. Program Committee, The 7th International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Social Networks for Decision Support (MSNDS), in conjunction with IEEE/ACM ASONAM, August 18-21, 2016, Davis, USA.
135. Conferece Chair, the Third Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), August 17 – 19, 2016, New Jersey, USA.
136. Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2016), Sept. 27-30, 2016, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
137. Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016), Oct. 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
138. Conferece Chair, the 3rd International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC), November 10-13, 2016, Duke University, USA.
139. Program Committee, The 7th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA), November 16-18, 2016, Seoul, South Korea.
140. Program Committee, 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), August 17 - 19, 2016, Uppsala, Sweden.
141. Program Committee, the 2016 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), November 25 – 27, 2016, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
142. Program Committee, 2016 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), December 19-21, 2016, Vellore, India.
143. Program Committee, 2016 8th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), December 19-21, 2016, Vellore, India.
144. Program Committee, The 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics, Workshop/Special Session (CYBCONF-2017 WS/SS), June 21-23, 2017, Exeter, UK.
145. General Chair, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), July 17 – 19, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.
146. Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), July 22-24, 2017, Beijing, China.
147. Honorary Conferece Chair, the 2017 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), July 30-August 2, 2017, Sydney, Australia.
148. Program Committee, 2017 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2017), September 11-13, 2017, Dekelia Air Base, Athens, Greece.
149. Honorary Conferece Chair, the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), November 6-8, 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
150. Program Committee, 8th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA), November 23-24, 2017, Gwangju, South Korea.
151. Program Committee, 15th Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), December 4-7, 2017, Salzburg, Austria.
152. Program Committee, 2017 9th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), December 11-13, 2017, Marrakech, Morocco.
153. Program Committee, 2018 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), June 26-29, 2018, London, United Kingdom.
154. General Chair, the 5th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), July 16 – 18, 2018, Saint-Etienne, France.
155. Program Committee, the 9th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST), September 19-21, 2018, Fukuoka, Japan.
156. Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2018), Oct. 7-10, 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
157. General Chair, the 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC), November 12-14, 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
158. Program Committee, 2018 International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS), November 19-21, 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
159. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July 7-10, 2019, Kobe, Japan.
160. Honorary Chair, the 6th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), August 12-14, 2019, Wenzhou, China.
161. Honorary Conferece Chair, the 2019 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), November 21-23, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
162. Honorary Chair, the 7th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC), June 28-30, 2020, Okinawa, Japan.