Guest/Adjunct professor of Beijing University of Technology (1998 -- )
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD) Most Influential Paper Award (1999-2008)
Best Paper Award of AMT (2006)
The recipient of IEEE TCCI/ICDM Outstanding Service Award (2004)
Best Research Meeting Paper Award of JSAI (2004)
The recipients of two ACM's Recognition of Service Awards (2002)
Best Paper Award of SCI (2001)
(b) Invited Talks
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Granular Computing (GrC'08), Hangzhou, China, Aug 26-28, 2008.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the Twenty First International Conference
on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent
Systems (IEA-AIE 2008), Wroclaw, Poland, 18-20 June 2008.
Zhong, N.
Invited Talk at 2008 IEEE Data Mining Forum,
sponsored by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and
the IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligence Informatics (TCII),
Hong Kong, May 28-29, 2008.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition
and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'07), Kolkata, India,
December 18-22, 2007.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference
(AWIC'07), Fontainebleau, France, June 25-27, 2007.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-07),
Innsbruck, Austria, 3-7 June 2007.
Zhong, N.
Invited Talk at AIS-ADM-07: The International Workshop on
Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining,
St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3-5, 2007
Zhong, N.
WIC Feature Talk at 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on
Web Intelligence (WI-06) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06),
Hong Kong, Dec. 18-22, 2006.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the First International Conference on Hybrid
Information Technology (ICHIT'06), Cheju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006.
Zhong, N.
Keynote Talk at the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Guilin, China, August 7-11, 2006.
Zhong, N.
Invited Talk at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
(GrC'06), Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006.
Zhong, N.
"Multi-Aspect Data Analysis in Brain Informatics",
Invited Talk at the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition and
Machine Intelligence (PReMI'05),
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, December 18-22, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Peculiarity Oriented Multi-Database Mining",
Invited Talk at the Data Mining seminar,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, December 16-17, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Towards Human-Level Web Intelligence",
Invited Talk at the 10th International Workshop on
ough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'05),
Regina, Canada, September 1-3, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Multi-Aspect Data Analysis with Rough-Set Based Hybrid Methods",
Invited Talk at the 5th China Conference on Rough Set and
Soft Computing (CRSSC'05), Anshan, China, August 1-5, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Building a Brain-Informatics Portal on the Wisdom Web
with a Multi-Layer Grid: A New Challenge for Web Intelligence Research",
Invited Talk at 2nd International Conference on
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI'05),
Tsukuba, Japan, July 25-27, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Web Intelligence Meets Brain Informatics:
An Impending Revolution in WI and Brain Sciences",
Keynote Talk at the 3rd International Atlantic Web Intelligence
Conference (AWIC'05), Lodz, Poland, June 6-9, 2005.
Zhong, N.
"Developing Intelligent Portals by Using WI Technologies",
Keynote Talk at the Second International Conference
on Active Media Technology (AMT'04),
Chongqing, P.R. China, May 29-31, 2004.
Zhong, N.
"Building a Data Mining Grid for Multiple Human Brain Data Analysis",
Keynote Talk at the ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
and e-Science, in conjunction with 17th Annual ACM International Conference
on Supercomputing (ICS'03), San Francisco, USA, 21 June, 2003.
Zhong, N.
"Toward Web Intelligence",
Keynote Talk at Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'03),
Madrid, Spain, May 5-7, 2003.
Zhong, N.
"Web Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Developing the Wisdom Web
and Social Network Intelligence",
Keynote Talk at Japan Rough Set Whorshop 2002,
NII, Japan, December 15, 2002.
Zhong, N.
"Rough Sets in KDD",
Tutorial Speaker (with Andrzej Skowron)
at the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000),
Keihanna Plaza, Kyoto, Japan, April 18, 2000.
Editor (the area of intelligent systems) of the Encyclopedia of
Computer Science and Engineering for Wiley Interscience
(a follow-on project to Webster's Encyclopedia on Electrical and
Electronics Engineering).
This encyclopedia will have over 500 articles and will be a state-of-the-art
reference book on terms and concepts in the computing area (2002 -- date)
Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems,
An International Journal (IOS Press) (2002 -- date)
Editor-in-Chief of Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(World Scientific) (2002 -- date)
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
(2003 -- date)
Associate Editor of Knowledge and Information Systems,
An International Journal (Springer) (1998 -- date)
Member of the editorial board of
Transactions on Rough Sets (Springer) (2003 -- date)
Member of the editorial board of
International Journal of Semantic Computing
(World Scientific Publishing) (2006 -- date)
Co-chairs and co-directors (Co-founder) of
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (2002 -- date)
Chair of the executive committee of the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
(Vice Chair: 2002 -- March 2006, Chair: April 2006 -- date)
Member of the advisory board of ACM SIGART (2003 -- date)
Member of the editorial board of
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)
book series (Springer-Verlag) (2002 -- date)
Member of the editorial board of
Frontiers in AI and Applications
book series (IOS Press) (2005 -- date)
Member of the advisory board for
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
book series (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press) (2007 -- date)
Member of the advisory board of International Rough Set Society
(1997 -- date)
Steering committee member of IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM) (2000 -- date)
Steering committee member of Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) (1999 -- date)
Steering committee member of International Conference on
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) (2002 -- date)
Coordinator and member of advisory board of
a Special Interest Group on Granular Computing
in Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC/SIG-GrC) (1997 -- date)
Member of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
Member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPS)
Member of IEEE
Member of ACM
Member of AAAI
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science
International advisory board member of
ICEITC 2007 (November 23-24, 2007, Chonbuk National University, South Korea)
Track chair on knowledge engineering,
IEEE First International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07)
(September 17-19, 2007, Hyatt Regency Irvine, Irvine, California, USA)
Program committee member of 2007 International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07)
(August 12-17, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA)
Senior program committee member of 13th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07)
(San Jose, CA, USA, August 12-15, 2007)
Program committee member of the fourth MDAI conference
(Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence)
(Kitakyushu, Japan, Aug. 16-18, 2007)
Program committee member of International Workshop on
Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agent and Data Mining, 2007
(AIS-ADM-07) (St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2007)
Conference Co-chair of 2007 IEEE Symposium Series
on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM'07)
(Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007)
Program chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM'06) (Dec 18-21, 2006, Hong Kong)
Advisory board member of 2006 International Conference on Hybrid
Information Technology (ICHIT'06)
(November 9-11, 2006, Cheju Island, Korea)
Advisory board member of the Fifth International Conference
on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'06)
(November 5-8, 2006, Kobe, Japan)
Program committee member of Seventh International Conference on
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'06)
(20-23 September 2006 in Burgos, Spain)
International General Co-chair of Third German Conference
on Multi-Agent Systems Technologies (MATES'06)
(Sept. 11-13, 2006, Koblenz, Germany)
Program committee member of
the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI-2006) (7- 11th August 2006, Guilin, China)
Conference Chair of International Conference on
Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'06)
(July 24-26, 2006, Chongqing, China)
Program committee member of the Fifth IEEE International Conference
on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'06)
(July 17-19, 2006, Beijing, China)
Chair of Special Session on Data for Discovery in Engineering
at IEA/AIE'06 (June 27-30, 2006, Annecy, France)
Program committee member of
the Joint 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 06) and the
3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services
(EEE' 06) (San Francisco, CA, June 26-29, 2006)
Conference Co-chair of the 4th International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT'06)
(June 7-9, Brisbane, Australia)
Program committee vice chair of
2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'06)
(GSU, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006)
Program committee member of
Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM-2006)
(April 20-22, 2006, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
Program committee member of the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-05)
(April 9-12, 2006, Singapore)
Program committee member of the third MDAI conference (Modeling
Decisions for Artificial Intelligence)
(April 3-5, 2006, Tarragona, Spain)
Honorary Conference Chair of
Special Track on Web Intelligence and Soft Computing,
Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IICAI'05) (December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India)
International program committee member
of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition and
Machine Intelligence (PReMI'05)
(December 18-22, 2005, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
Advisory board member of the 10th International Workshop on
Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'05)
(September 1-3, 2005, Regina, Canada)
Program committee member of 2005 IEEE International Conference
on Granular Computing (GrC'05) (Bejing, July 25-27, 2005)
Program committee member of Sixth International Conference on
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05)
(6th - 8th July, 2005, Brisbane, Australia)
Program committee member of the International Workshop on
Autonomous Intelligent Systems - Agents and Data Mining (AIS-ADM-05)
(St. Petersburg, Russia, June 6-8, 2005)
The steering committee member of the 15th International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'05)
(May 26-28, 2005, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA)
Program committee member of the 2005 IEEE International
Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05)
(29 March-1 April, 2005, Hong Kong)
The scientific committee member of
The ADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2004,
(14-16 December 2004, Lisbon, Portugal)
Program chair of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004)
(Sept. 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China)
Program chair of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004)
(Sept. 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China)
Program committee member of the Fourth IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM'04)
(November 1-4, 2004, Brighton, UK)
Program committee member of the 8th International Workshop on
Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004)
(September 27-29, 2004, Erfurt, Germany)
Program committee member of Fifth International Conference
on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'04),
(25-27 August 2004, Exeter, UK)
Program committee member of the Eighth Pacific-Rim Internatonal
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004)
(9-13 August 2004, Auckland, New Zealand)
Program committee member of International Workshop Monitoring,
Security, and Rescue Tasks in Multi-Agent Systems 2004 (MSRAS 2004)
(June 7-9, 2004, Poland)
Program committee member of the Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-04)
(May 26-28, 2004, Calton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia)
Program committee member of the Fourth SIAM Data Mining Conference
(SDM'04) (April 22-24, 2004, the Hyatt Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida, USA)
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of
Fifth International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2004)
(15-17 September 2004, Malaga, Spain)
Program committee member of the 2004 IEEE International
Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-04)
(March 29-31, 2004, Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan)
Program committee member of the Third IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM'03)
(November 19-22, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA)
Program committee member of the IASTED International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing (IKS 2003)
(November 17-19 2003, Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
Program committee member of the 1st International Workshop
on e-Science (8 November 2003, Algarve, Portugal)
Program committee member of the ACM International Workshop on
e-Science and Grid Computing (21 June 2003, San Francisco, USA)
in conjunction with 17th Annual ACM International Conference
on Supercomputing.
Program chair of the 14th International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'03)
(October 28-31, 2003, Maebashi, Japan)
Conference chair of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)
(October 13-17, 2003, Halifax, Canada)
Conference chair of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003)
(October 13-17, 2003, Halifax, Canada)
Program committee member of the 4th International Conference on
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2003)
(September 1-5, 2003, Praha, Czech Republic).
Advisory committee member of
the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI'03) (Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003)
Program committee member of the Second International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'03)
(July 14-18th, 2003, the Sofitel in Melbourne, Australia)
Conference chair of the Second International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT'03)
(May 29-31, Chongqing, China)
Advisory board member of the 9th. International Workshop on
Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC'03)
(May 26-28, Chongqing, China)
Steering Committee member of
Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'03),
(Madrid, Spain, May 5-7, 2003)
Conference chair of 2002 IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM'02) (November, 2002, Maebashi, Japan)
Program committee member of the 2002
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02)
(18-22 November 2002, Singapore)
Program chair of the Third International
Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'02)
(October, 2002, Penn State Great Valley, USA)
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of
Third International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2002)
(September 25-27, 2002, Bologna, Italy)
Program committee member of International Conference on
Intelligent Information Technology (ICIIT-02)
(September 22-25, 2002, Beijing, China)
Program committee member of the 6th International Workshop on
Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2002)
(September 18-20, 2002, Madrid, Spain)
Program committee member of the Third International Conference on
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2002)
(September 2-6, 2002, Aix-en-Province, France).
Program committee member of the First International Joint Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'02)
(July, 2002, Bologna, Italy)
Program committee member of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-02)
(July 23-26th, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Program committee member of the 13th International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'02)
(June, 2002, Lyon, France)
Program committee member of the sixth Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'02)
(May 6-8, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan)
Publicity Chair of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM'01)
(November 29 - December 2, 2001, Silicon Valley, California, USA)
Program committee member of 2001 IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining (ICDM'01)
(November 29 - December 2, 2001, Silicon Valley, California, USA)
Program chair of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2001)
(October 23-26, 2001, Maebashi City, Japan)
Program chair of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI 2001)
(October 23-26, 2001, Maebashi City, Japan)
Program committee member of the Third International Conference on
Information, Communications, and Signal Processing
(ICICS 2001) (October 15-18, 2001, Singapore)
Program committee member of the Third International Conference on
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2001)
(September 3-7, 2001, Munich, Germany)
Program committee member of the 5th International Workshop on
Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2001)
(September 6-8, 2001, Modena, Italy)
Program committee member of the IJCAI'01 Workshop on
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
(August 4-6, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA)
Program committee member of International ICSC Workshop on
GRANULAR COMPUTATION (GrC 2001)
(June 19-22 2001, Bangor, Wales, UK)
Program committee member of Workshop on
Autonomy-Oriented Computation (AOC)
at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS 2001)
(May 28-June 1, 2001, Montreal, Canada)
Steering and program committee member of
JSAI International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing
(May 20-22, 2001, Shimane, Japan)
Program committee member of
JSAI Internatinal KDD Challenge 2001 Workshop (JKDD01)
(May 22, 2001, Shimane, Japan)
Program committee member of the fifth Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2001)
(April 16-18, 2001, Hong Kong)
Program committee member of the 10th International Conference
on Computing and Information (ICCI 2000)
(November 18-21, 2000, Kuwait)
Organizing committee member of the 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON INFORMATION SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW CHALLENGES (IS 2000)
(November 5-8, 2000, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan)
Advisory board member and publicity chair of the second International
Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2000)
(October 16-19, 2000, Banff, Canada)
Program committee member of the twelfth International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2000)
(October 11-14, 2000, Charlotte, NC, USA)
Program committee member of the fourth European Conference on
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-2000)
(Sept. 13-16, 2000, Lyon, France)
Member of the International Scientific Advisory
Committee of 2nd International Conference on Data Mining (Data Mining 2000)
(July 5-7, 2000, Cambridge University, UK)
Program committee member of the fourth Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000)
(April 18-20, 2000, Kyoto, Japan)
Special session chair on Granular Computing and Data
Mining (GrC-DM) in the The Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy
Theory and Technology (FTT2000)
(February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
Program committee member of International Conference on Advances
in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Application (AISTA 2000)
(February 2-4, 2000, Canberra, Australia)
Program committee member of the Information Society conference
2000 (Slovenia).
Program chair of the first Asia-Pacific Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'99)
Program chair of the seventh International Workshop on Rough Sets,
Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing (RSFDGrC'99)
Program chair of the third Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'99)
Program committee member of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-99)
Program committee member of the third European Conference on
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'99)
Program committee member of the eleventh International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'99)
Program committee member of PACLING'99
(Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics)
Organizing committee member of Data Mining and Machine Learning Workshop
in the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI-98)
Program committee member of the second European Symposium on
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'98)
Session chair of the second European Symposium on
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD'98)
Program committee member of 1st International Conference on Rough Sets
and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'98)
Program committee member of the Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
at 11th International Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS-98)
Program committee member of the second Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'98)
Session chair of the second Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'98)
Program committee member of the sixth International Workshop on
Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98)
Session chair of the sixth International Workshop on
Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSDMGrC'98)
Program committee member of AI Application Symposium'97
(High Technology Symposium Yamaguchi'97)
Program committee member of the 1997 IEEE Knowledge and Data
Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX-97)
Guest editor of special issue on ``intelligent agents and
data mining for cognitive systems''
for The Cognitive Systems Research Journal,
Elsevier Science Publishers (2004)
(with Jiming Liu and Ron Sun)
Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)''
for Knowledge Based Systems, An International Journal,
Elsevier Science Publishers (2004)
(with Yiyu, Yao, Jiming Liu, and Setsuo Ohsuga)
Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)''
for Journal of Intelligent Information Systems,
Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003)
(with Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao, and Z.W. Ras)
Member of the editorial board of special issue on
Web Information Processing Technology for Transaction of IEICE (D) (2003)
Guest editor of special issue on ``Web Intelligence (WI)''
for IEEE Computer (November 2002)
(with Jiming Liu and Yiyu Yao)
Guest editor of special issue on ``intelligent IT''
for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (2002)
(with Jiming Liu and Patrick Wang)
Member of the editorial board of special issue on
``Active Data Mining'' for
Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2002)
Guest editor of special issue on ``intelligent agent technology''
for International Journal of Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15, No. 3, World Scientific (2001)
(with Jiming Liu, Y.Y. Tang, and Patrick Wang)
Guest editor of special issue on ``rough sets and their applications''
for International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science,
Vol. 11, No. 3, Technical University Press, Poland (2001)
(with Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Roman W. Swiniarski, and Wojciech Ziarko)
Guest editor of special issue on ``rough sets, data mining,
and granular computing'' for Computational Intelligence
An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, Blackwell Publishers (2001)
(with Andrzej Skowron and Nick Cercone)
Assessor of University Grants Committee,
Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (1999 -- )
Member of the IBC Advisory Council,
International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, UK (2000 -- )
Member of Research Board of Advisors,
American Biographical Institute (ABI), USA (2000 -- )
Referee for
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001 --)
Referee for
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS),
World Scientific (2001)
Referee for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (2000 --)
Referee for IEICE Transactions (2000)
Referee for NEUROCOMPUTING, An International Journal,
ELSEVIER (1999)
Referee for Computational Intelligence
An International Journal, Blackwell Publishers (1999)
Referee for Applied Intelligence,
An International Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999)
Referee for Information Sciences,
An International Journal, North-Holland (1999)
Referee for The Computer Journal (1999)
Examiner of a Ph.D. thesis for Monash University, Australia (1998)
Examiner of a MPhil thesis for Hong Kong Baptist University (1998)
Referee for DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY,
An International Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1998)
Referee for Data & Knowlegde Engineering,
An International Journal, North-Holland (1998)
Referee for 1998 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
(FUZZ-IEEE'98)
Referee for Information Sciences,
An International Journal, North-Holland (1997)
Referee for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS (1997)
Referee for Computers & Chemistry,
An International Journal (1997)
Referee for Knowledge Based Systems,
An International Journal, Elsevier Science Publishers (1996)
Referee for Journal of Intelligent Information Systems,
Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
Referee for a special issue on learning and discovery
in knowledge-based databases of
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1992)