Always listen to experts.

They'll tell you what can't be done and why.

Then do it.

Robert Heinlein

Organisation and chairing of international conferences, workshops and special sessions

• Co-chair of the special session on Effective Ensemble Methods accepted to the 20th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2007), 12-17 August 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA.

• Co-chair of the special session on Advances in Incremental Learning accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'2007), 23-26 July, 2007, Imperial College, London, UK.

• Co-chairman of the 2007 International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (ICCIIS'07) to be held as part of the World Congress on Engineering (WCE'2007), 2-4 July 2007, London, UK.

• Co-chair of the special session on Nature-inspired Intelligent Methods and Applications. The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), 20-22 June, 2007, San Sebastián, Spain.

• The chair of the invited panel discussion on "Foundations of Computational Intelligence - the basis for Smart Adaptive Systems of the future?" The 1st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'2007), 1-5 April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

• Co-chairman of the 10th Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems (KES'2006) conference, Bournemouth, UK.

• Co-chair of the special session on Nature-inspired Data Mining (NiDM'2006), to take place within KES'2006, Bournemouth, UK.

• Co-chair of the special session on Industrial Applications of Intelligent Systems, to take place within KES'2006, Bournemouth, UK.

• Co-chair of the special session on Nature-inspired Data Technologies at the IDAEL'2006 conference, Burgos, Spain.

• Co-chair of the workshop on the Nature-inspired Data Technologies (NiDT'2006) to take place within the NiSIS'2006 Symposium, Tenerife, Spain.

• Co-chair of the workshop on the Nature-inspired Data Technologies (NiDT'2005), a part of the NiSIS'2005 Symposium, Albufeira, Portugal.

• Co-organiser of the 4th Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems, a part of the EUNITE'2004 Symposium, Aachen, Germany.

• Co-chairman of the 3nd Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems, a part of the EUNITE'2003 Symposium, Oulu, Finland.

• The chairman of the 2nd Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems, a part of the EUNITE'2002 Symposium, Albufeira, Portugal.

• Local organisational committee member of the fourth ICSC Symposium on Intelligent Industrial Automation and Soft Computing, SOCO'2001, Paisley, UK.

• Local organisational committee member of the second ICSC Conference on Engineering Intelligent Systems EIS'2000, Paisley, Scotland.

• Local organisational committee member of the European Simulation Symposium ESS'98, Nottingham, UK.
  

International conference programme (IPC) committees

• A member of the programme committee of the 1st Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA'2007), Wroclaw, Poland.

• A member of the programme committee of the IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2007), Banff, Canada.

• A member of the programme committee of the 2nd International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC'2007), Murcia, Spain.

• A member of the programme committee of the 10th Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems (KES'2006) Conference, Bournemouth, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the 2nd Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems (EFS'2006), Ambelside, Lake District, UK.

• A member of the Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems Workshop (HAIS´06) organised within the International Joint Conference IBERAMIA/SBIA/SBRN 2006, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.

• A member of the programme committee of the IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI'2006), San Francisco, USA.

• A member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC'2006), Canterbury, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2006), Burgos, Spain.

• A member of the programme committee of the workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2006), Geneva, Switzerland.

• A member of the programme committee of the Knowledge and Information Management in Computer Communication Systems (KIMCCS'2006) Workshop within the International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2006, Reading, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on: Multimedia and Network Information Systems (MISSI'06), Poland.

• A member of the programme committee of the 4th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2006), Brest, Belarus.

• A member of the programme committee of the 9th Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems (KES'2005) Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

• A member of the programme committee of the workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2005), Glasgow, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the International Symposium of Industrial Application of Soft Computing and the International Congress on Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications (CIMA 2005), Istanbul, Turkey.

• A member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC'2004), Nottingham, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the 8th Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems (KES'2004) Conference, Wellington, NZ.

• A member of the programme committee of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA'04, Budapest, Hungary.

• A member of the programme committee of the workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2004) within the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), Valencia, Spain.

• A member of the programme committee of the Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (HMAS'2004) workshop and the Symposium on Intelligent Technologies and Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE'2004), Aachen, Germany.

• A member of the programme committee of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI '2004), Canakkale, Turkey.

• A member of the programme committee of the workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'2003) within the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI'2003), Hamburg, Germany.

• A member of the programme committee of the 7th Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems (KES'2003) Conference, Oxford, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (HMAS'2003) workshop and the Symposium on Intelligent Technologies and Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE'2003), Oulu, Finland.

• A member of the programme committee of the First International NAISO Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, ITEE'2003, Gdansk, Poland.

• A member of the programme committee of the Symposium on Intelligent Technologies and Smart Adaptive Systems, EUNITE'2002. Albufeira, Portugal.

• A member of the programme committee of the 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC'2002), Nottingham, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the fourth ICSC Symposium on Intelligent Industrial Automation and Soft Computing, SOCO2001, Paisley, Scotland, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of ICSC Symposium on FUZZY LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS, CIMA2001, Bangor, UK.

• A member of the programme committee of the Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications IDAACS'2001, Foros, Crimea, Ukraine.

• A member of the programme committee of the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, ICNNAI'99, Brest, Belarus.
  

International conference session chairing

• A session chair at the KES'2005, Melbourne, Australia.

• Standard sessions chair at the NiSIS'2005 Symposium, Albufeira, Portugal.

• Standard sessions chair at the EUNITE'2004 Symposium, Aachen, Germany.

• A plenary session and standard sessions chair at the KES'2004, Wellington, New Zealand.

• A plenary session chair at the KES'2003, Oxford, UK.

• A session chair at the EUNITE'2003 (HMAS'2003 workshop), Oulu, Finland.

• A session chair at the RASC'2002, Nottingham, UK.

• A session chair at the EUNITE'2002 (HMAS'2002 workshop), Albufeira, Portugal.

• A session chair at the EUNITE'2001 Symposium, Tenerife, Spain.

• Two sessions chair at the fourth ICSC Symposium on Intelligent Industrial Automation and Soft Computing, SOCO2001, Paisley, Scotland, UK.

• A session chair at the second ICSC Conference on Engineering Intelligent Systems, EIS2000, Paisley, UK.

• A session chair at the International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence ICNNAI'99, Brest, Belarus