Professional Activities

CURRENT SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
        Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
        Computer Society

North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Referee:
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Feroelectrics, and Frequency Control
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
International Journal of General Systems
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Information Sciences
Optical Engineering
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy

Reviewer:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Neural Network Review
IEEE Press
McMillian Publishing Company
John Wiley and Sons Publishing Company
CRC Press

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, January 1999 - present.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, January 1992-present.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, July 1992 - December 1998.

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, January 1993 - present.

International Advisory Committee, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, June, 1999 -present

Editorial Board, Pattern Analysis and Applications, May, 1997 - present.

Editorial Board , Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, November, 1997-Present

Editorial Board , International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, January, 2003-Present

President, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1991-1994.

Board of Directors, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1991-1999.

Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2000-2003.

Member of the IEEE Neural Networks Society Conferences Committee.

Professional Conference Duties: Chairing numerous sessions (some invited), being a member of many organizing and technical committees, including reviewing manuscripts. Larger roles include:

Conference Chairman, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society 1991 Workshop, Columbia, MO, 1991.

Co-Chair, Publicity Committee and Member of Executive Program Committee (Pattern Recognition), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, San Diego, CA, March 8-12, 1992.

Publicity Co-chair, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, September 8-11, 1996.

Program Co-chair, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Meeting, Berkeley, CA, June 20-22, 1996.

Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Houston, TX, June 8-12, 1997.

Program Chair, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Anchorage, AK, May 3-9, 1998.

Technical Area Chair: Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Tenth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2001.

Program Co-chair, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Meeting, New Orleans, June 27-29, 2003.

General Chair: Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, St. Louis, MO, May 25-28, 2003.