PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Foreign Academic Title

• Full Professor, life-time appointment conferred by the President of Poland, 2005-

Visiting Academic Appointments

• Visiting Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2014-2017
• Visiting Professor, University of Alberta, Canada, 2000-2007
• Visiting Professor, University of Bari, Italy, 2003
• Visiting Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2004
• Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2005
• Visiting Professor, Krakow University of Technology, Poland
• Special Visiting Research Fellow, Konan University, Japan, 2004-2008
• Foreign Member of the Decision Support Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006

National and International Boards

• President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS), 2002-2004, 2004-2006, 2010-2012
• Member of Board of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation, 2002-
• Member of Board of Directors of the Society for Computer Simulation, USA, 2002-2005
• Member of the International Advisory Board of Knowledge Engineering Systems Organisation (KES), 2003-
• Member of the International Academic Advisory Council of the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organisation (NAISO), 2001-
• Member of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), 1996-
• Member of the Engineering Professors Council (EPC), 1996-

Editorship - 2000 - onwards

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part-A, 2007-
• Associate Editor of Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2009-
• Editor-in-Chief, Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corp., 2006-2009
• Editor of book series - Computer Simulation and Modelling, Research Studies Press (Wiley), 2003-

Membership of editorial boards - 2000 - onwards

• Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), 2003-
• International Journal of Knowledge Engineering Systems (KES), 2003-
• Intelligent Decision Technologies, IOI Press, 2006-
• Transport Problems, WPS, 2007-
• Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2009-
• Archives of Control Sciences (special issue editor), 2002
• Transactions on Transport Systems Telematics, 2005-
• International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2003-
• International Journal of Engineering Simulation, 2001-
• Intern. J. of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, 2000-

Conference Chair/ Member of International Programme Committee/ Track Chair - 2000 - onwards

• IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, California, October 5-8, 2014 (Member of IPC)
• 9th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, Shanghai, China, October 24-26, 2014 (Member of IPC)
• Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, 16-21 September 2014 (Member of IPC)
• Complex Events and Information Modelling, Warsaw, Poland, 7-10 September 2014 (Member of IPC)
• Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS 2014, Granada, Spain, July 9-13, 2014 (Member of IPC)
• 4th World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley, California, May 25-27, 2014 (Member of IPC)
• European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia, Italy, 27-30 May 2014 (Honorary Conference Chair)
• Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS 2013, Halifax, Canada, October 11-14, 2013 (Member of IPC)
• International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Applications, 20-22 September 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal (Member of IPC)
• International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2013), Hyderabad, India, 7-10 July 2013 (Member of IPC)
• IFSA World Congress, IFSA 2013 , Edmonton, June 2013 (Member of IPC)
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, IEEE SSCI2013, Singapore, April 2013 (Member of IPC)
• 27thEuropean Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2013, Aalsund, Norway, June 2013, (Board Member of the ECMS)
• IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (FUZZ-IEEE 2012), Brisbane, Australia, June, June 2012 (Member of IPC)
• International Symposium on Soft Computing, Tokyo, Nov. 2012 (Member of IPC)
• 26thEuropean Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2012, Koblenz, Germany, June 2012, (President of the ECMS)
• 25thEuropean Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2011, Krakow, Poland, June 2011, (President of the ECMS)
• International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications - WILF2011, Trani-Bari, Italy, August 29-31, 2011 (Member of IPC)
• 4th International Conference Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'11), Moscow, June 27 - July 1, 2011 (Member of IPC)
• 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2010), Cairo, Dec. 2010, (Member of IPC)
• 4th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and its Industrial Applications (ISCIIA2010), Harbin, Aug. 2-8 2010, (Member of IPC)
• 24th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2008, (General Conference Chair)
• IEEE/WCI/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09), Milan, Sept. 2009, (member of IPC)
• 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2009, Madrid, Spain, June 2008, (General conference Co-chair)
• 9th Int. Conf. on Telematics, Logistics & Transport Safety, Katowice, Poland, June 2009, (member of IPC)
• 22nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2008, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2009, (member of ECMS Board)
• Int. Conf. on Rough Sets and Emerging Intelligent Systems Paradigms (RSEISP), Warsaw, Poland, June 2007, (member of IPC)
• 21st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2007, Prague, June 2007, (member of ECMS Board)
• Int. Conf. on Biomedical Engineering and Technologies BIOMET, Wisla, Poland, 2007, (member of IPC)
• 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2006) (member of IPC).
• 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006, (member of IPC), Hong Kong, China, August 2006
• 20th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2006, Bonn, May 2006, (President of the ECMS)
• European Simulation Symposium, ESS2005, (General Programme Co-chair), Marseille, October 2005.
• 19th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS2005, Riga, June 2005, (President of the ECMS)
• Invited international expert (plenary speaker), World Expo and ITS Standardization, Shanghai, China, November 2004.
• Int. Workshop on Harbour, Maritime and Industrial Logistics Modelling and Simulation - HMS, (member of IPC), Riga, Sept. 2000.
• 23rd Int. Conf. of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, NAFIPS’04, (Chair of Granular Computing track and Invited Speaker at the Summer School), Banf, Canada, June, 2004
• 18th European Simulation Multiconference, ESM2004, Magdeburg, June 2004, (Chairman of SCS-EC)
• Knowledge Engineering Systems KES’2004, (member of IPC), Wellington, NZ, September 2004.
• APIEMS’2004, (member of IPC), Brisbaine, AU, December 2004
• RASC 2004, (member IPC), Nottingham, UK, December 2004
• ISCIIA2004, (member IPC), Hainan Island, China, December 2004
• International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimization , MSO 2005, (member IPC), Oranjestad, Aruba, August 29-31, 2005
• Knowledge Engineering Systems KES’2004, (member of IPC), Wellington, NZ, September 2004.
• European Simulation Symposium, ESS2004, Budapest, October 2004, (Chairman of SCS-EC)
• UKSIM Conference, (member of IPC), Cambridge, UK, April 2003.
• European Simulation Multiconference ESM2003, (member of IPC), Nottingham, June 2003
• Knowledge Engineering Systems KES’2003, (member of IPC), Oxford, 2003
• Knowledge Engineering Systems, (member of the International Advisory Board of KES), 2003-
• Applied Simulation and Modelling, ASM 2003, (member of IPC), Marbella, Spain, Sept. 2003
• Int. Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, ISIS 2003, (member of IPC), Jeju Island, Korea, Sept. 2003
• European Simulation Symposium ESS'03, (member of IPC), Delft, October 2003
• European Simulation Multiconference ESM’2002, (member of IPC), Darmstadt, June 2002
• European Simulation Symposium ESS'02, (member of IPC), Dresden, October 2002
• Knowledge Engineering Systems conference KES’2002, (member of IPC), Crema, Italy, Sept. 2002.
• Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems SCIS’2002, (Chair of Granular Computing track), Tsukuba, Japan, Oct. 2002
• Recent Advances in Soft Computing RASC2002, (member of IPC), Nottingham, December 2002.
• European Simulation Multiconference ESM’2000, (member of IPC), Gent, May 2000
• European Simulation Symposium ESS'00, (member of IPC), Hamburg, October 2000
• UKSIM Conference, (member of IPC), Cambridge, UK, March 2001
• 5th Int. Conf. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies, KES 2001, (Chair of Granular Computing track), Osaka, Sept. 2001
• European Simulation Multiconference ESM’2001, (member of IPC), Prague, June 2001
• European Simulation Symposium ESS'01, (member of IPC), Marseille, October 2001
• Computing and Control for Water Industry conference, (member of IPC), Leicester, Sept. 2001
• Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organisation (NAISO), member of the International Academic Advisory Council, 2001-

National and International Research Review Panels

• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, 2006-2010 and 2010-
• Member of the Review Panel - German Research Foundation (DFG), Centres of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation, May 2005 & 2006
• Member of the Review Panel - Polish Science Foundation - FNP, 2010-
• Member of the Review Panel - Italian Ministry for University Education and Research - MIUR, 2012
• Member of the Review Panel - National Science Centre - NCN, Poland, 2011-

External Advisor for PhD

• Helsinki University of Technology, 1998

External Examiner, PhDs

• Raffaele Cannone, University of Bari, Italy, June 2012
• Danilo DellÕAgnello, University of Bari, Italy, June 2012
• Alexander Demko, University of Manitoba, Canada, September 2010
• Aarthi Chandramohan, Multimedia University, Malaysia, March 2007
• Mark Alexiuk, University of Manitoba, Canada, 2006
• Khalid Bin Hasnan, Sheffield Hallam University, February 2006
• Jordi Casas Vilarao, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, November 2004
• John Rance, DeMontford University, 2001
• Peter Bounds, DeMontfort University, 1998

External Examiner, Taught Courses

• MSc in Professional Computing, Staffordshire University, 2003-2007

External Referee for Staff Appointment/Promotion

• Professorship - University of Lancaster, UK, 2013
• Readership (Habilitation) Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2012
• Research Fellowship - University of Surrey, UK, 2011
• Professorship - Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, 2011
• Professorship - University of Manchester, UK, 2010
• Professorship - University of Alberta, Canada, 2009
• Research Fellowship - University of Surrey, UK, 2008
• Professorship - University of Alberta, Canada; 2007
• Professorship - DeMontfort University, UK, 2007
• Readership (Habilitation) - Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2006
• Readership (Habilitation) - Kingston University, UK, 2003

Member of the Validation Panel

• University of Westminster, MSc Parallel Computing, 1997
• University of Westminster, MSc Software Engineering, 1995
• Staffordshire University, MSc Software Engineering, 1994
• Hong Kong Polytechnic, MSc Software Engineering, 1994

Specialist Assessor in Computing for the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) TQA

• Keel University, 1995
• City University, 1995
• Teeside University, 1995

Head of School of Computer Science at University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) 2007-2010

• PhotoRecord - CS-UNMC 2007-2010