Professional activities

2026-: Member, Academic Quality Assurance and Planning Committee (AQAPC), Nipissing University, Canada.

2026-: Fellow, AAIS ( International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences ).

2026-: Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems Council .

2025-: Honorary Professor, Obuda University, Hungary .

2025-2028: Member, NSERC Scholarships and Postdoctoral Awards Review Committee , Canada.

2025-: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Intelligence Science and Engineering .

2025-: Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE SMC Society .

2025-: Fellow, IEEE for contributions to collaboration theory, models, and systems.

2024-: Member, Ad hoc Committee on Strategic Planning, Foresight, and Strategic Initiatives, IEEE SMC Society .

2024-: Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Representative (Primary), IEEE Systems Council .

2024-: Member, Cybernetics Committee, IEEE SMC Society, IEEE SMC Society .

2023-: Vice President Systems Science and Engineering, IEEE SMC Society .

2023-: Chair, SSE Technical Activity Committee, IEEE SMC Society .

2023-: Member, Finance Committee, IEEE SMC Society .

2023-: Member, Human-Machine Systems Committee, IEEE SMC Society .

2023-: Member, Publications Committee, IEEE SMC Society .

2022: Editor in Chief, IEEE SMC Magazine .

2022-: Member-at-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE SMC Society .

2022-: Voting Member, Smart Cities Terminology Working Group (IEEE P3166), IEEE Standard Association.

2022: Member and Co-Chair, Review Committee, New Frontiers in Research Fund – Special Call – NFRFR 2022, Canada.

2022: External Reviewer, Master of Science in Information Systems, Athabasca University , Canada.

2021: External Reviewer, Programs of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Science, Algoma University , Canada.

2019-2022: Member, SSE Technical Activity Committee, IEEE SMC Society

2018-: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems .

2018-: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions of SMC: Systems .

2017-: Associate Editor, IEEE Canadian Review .

2008-: Member, Editorial Board, Int′l J. of Software Sciences and Computational Intelligence .

2006-: Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE SMC Society .

2015-2021: Associate Editor, IEEE SMC Magazine .

2021: Associate Vice President Systems Science and Engineering (SSE), IEEE SMC Society

2025-: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Intelligence Science and Engineering .

22024-: Associate Editor, IEEE Systems Journal , IEEE Systems Council .

2022: Editor in Chief, IEEE SMC Magazine .

2018-: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems .2018-: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions of SMC: Systems .2017-: Associate Editor, IEEE Canadian Review .2008-: Member, Editorial Board, Int′l J. of Software Sciences and Computational Intelligence .2006-: Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE SMC Society .2015-2021: Associate Editor, IEEE SMC Magazine .

2010-2012: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Communications of SIWN, A Journal of SIWN - The Systemics and Informatics World Network.

2007-2010: Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems.

2011-2019: Associate Editor, International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems .

2010-2020: Associate Editor, Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences .

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Distributed Intelligent Systems , Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems , 2006-2007Guest Editor, Special Issue on Emergency Management Systems , Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems , 2006-2007Guest Editor, Special Issue on Collaboration Support Systems , IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A , 2005-2006.Guest Associate Editor, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications , 2006.

2021: Registration Co-Chair, Associate Editor, IEEE The Int′l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC′21 ), Oct. 17 - 20, 2021, Melbourne, Australia (Online).

2020: Program Co-Chair, The 10th Int′l Conf. on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communications, and Sensors, Nov. 3-5, 2020, Online.

2020: Program Co-Chair, The 13 th Int′l Conf. on Computer Science and Information Technology, Oct. 14-16, 2020, online.

2020: Poster Co-Chair, Associate Editor, IEEE The Int′l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC′20 ), Oct. 7-10, 2020, Toronto, Canada.

2020 : Program Chair, IEEE 24 th Int′l Conf. on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD′20), May 6-8, 2020, Dalian, China,

2020: Publication Chair and Steering Committee Member, IEEE The 1 st Int′l Conf. on Human-Machine Systems, Sept. 7-9, 2020, Online.

2019: Tutorial Co-Chair, Associate Editor, IEEE The Int′l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC′19 ), Oct.. 6-9, 2019, Bari, Italy.

2019: Program Chair, IEEE The 16 th Int′l Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, (ICNSC′19), May. 9-11, 2019, Banff, Canada,

2018: Special Session Chair, 22th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, May 9- 11, 2013, Nanjing, China

2017: Area Co-Chair, Publicity Chair, IEEE Int′l Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC′17) , October 5-8, 2017, Banff, Canada.

Co-Chair, Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016

Co-Chair, Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, July 07-10, 2015, Grenoble, France

Organizer, Special Session on Distributed Adaptive Systems , SMC 2015, October 9-12, 2015, Hong Kong

Social Media Co-Chair, Website Co-Chair, SMC 2014, October 5-8, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA

Organizer, Special Session on Distributed Adaptive Systems , SMC 2014, October 5-8, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA

Organizer, Special Session on Distributed Adaptive Systems , SMC 2013, October 13-16, Manchester, UK

PC Chair, 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, June 27- 29, 2013, Whistler, BC, Canada

2010-2012: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Communications of SIWN, A Journal of SIWN - The Systemics and Informatics World Network.

Organizer of Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration, CTS 2012, May 18-22, 2012, Denver, Co, USA

Organizer of Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration, and Posters Co-Chair, CTS 2011, May 18-22, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Program Committee(PC) Chair, International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2010, Hangzhou, China

Vice PC Chair, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC′10), Aug. 14-16, 2010, Silicon Valley, CA, USA

Organizer, Workshop on Adaptive Collaboration , Special Session on Role-Based Collaboration , CTS 2010, May 18-22, 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2009-2010: Member, International Domain Experts, International Journal of Patterns.

2007-2010: Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems.

Vice PC Chair, International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking, Dec. 12-14, 2009, Chengdu, China

Organizer, Special Session on Role-Based Collaboration , SMC 2009, October 12-15, San Antonio, USA

Co-Organizer, Special Session on Cognitive Data Mining, ICCI 2009, June 15-17, Hong Kong

Posters Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE The International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), May 18-22, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Organizer, Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration , CTS 2009, May 18-22, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Organizer, Special Session on Role-Based Collaboration , SMC 2008, October 12-15, Singapore

Posters Co-Chair, 2008, ACM/IEEE The International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), May 19-23, 2008, Irvine, California, USA

Organizer, Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration , CTS 2008, May 19-23, 2008, Irvine, California, USA

Organizer, Special Session on Role-Based Collaboration , SMC 2007, October 7-10, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE SMC Society , from 2006

Vice Program Committee Chair, 2007, IEEE International Conference on Complex Open Distributed Systems (CODS′2007), 22-24 July 2007, Chengdu, China

Publicity Chair, 2007, ACM/IEEE The International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2007), May 21-25, 2007, Orlando, FL, USA

Organizer, Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration , CSCW 2006, November 4-8, Banff, Alberta, Canada

2026-: Fellow, AAIS ( International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences ).

2025-: Fellow, IEEE for contributions to collaboration theory, models, and systems.

Senior Member, IEEE , from 2004

Member, ACM , from 2004

Lifetime Members, Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA http://www.castusa.org/ , from 2002

Elsevier, Transportation Research Part E, Since 2026

Elsevier, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, since 2026

IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, since 2025

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, since 2025

IEEE Trans. on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, since 2025

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, since 2025

IEEE Communications Magazine, since 2024

IEEE Transactions on Computers, since 2024

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, since 2023

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, since 2023

MDPI, Aerospace, since 2022.

Oxford University Press, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, since 2022.

Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, since 2022.

Taylor & Francis, Enterprise Information Systems, since 2022.

IET/Wiley, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technologies, since 2021.

Elsevier, Computers and Electrical Engineering, since 2021.

Elsevier, Ocean Engineering, since 2021.

MDPI, Applied Science, since 2020.

Wiley/ Hindawi , Complexity, since 2019.

Elsevier, Information Sciences, since 2019.

SAGE, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, since 2019

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, since 2017.

Elsevier, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing , since 2017.

Wiley, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, since 2016.

Elsevier, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, since 2015.

Elsevier, Social Network Analysis and Mining, since 2014.

Wiley, The International Journal of Communication Systems, since 2014.

Springer, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, since 2013.

Oxford, The Computer Journal, since 2013.

Elsevier, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, since 2013.

Elsevier, Computers in Industry, since 2013.

Elsevier, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, since 2012.

SCS, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, since 2012.

Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems- The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience, since 2012.

Springer, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, since 2010.

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, since 2009.

Scialert , Information Technology Journal, since 2008.

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, since 2007.

Springer, International Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, since 2005.

Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Production Research, since 2005.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, since 2005.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, since 2003.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, since 2003.

IEEE Transactions on Educations, since 2002.