Positions

Academic Professional Positions

Editorships

	Co-Editor of a special journal issue on "Forecasting with Neural Networks”, International Journal of Forecasting (IJF), Elsevier, forthcoming 2008	-
	Co-Editor of a special journal issue on "Data Mining”, Annals of Information Systems (AoIS), Springer, forthcoming 2008	-
	Co-Editor of a special journal issue on "Forecasting with Computational Intelligence”, Neurocomputing, Elsevier, forthcoming 2008	-
	Co-Editor of "Advances in Business Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks", Edited Volume in Springer Series "Advances in Soft Computing", Springer, forthcoming 2008	-
	Co-Editor of the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN’07, CRSEA Press, forthcoming 2007
	Co-Editor of the Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN’06, CRSEA Press (available online at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/publications/dmin06/index_html)
	Associate editor of the Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’05, CSREA Press
	Associate editor of the Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’04, CSREA Press

Editorial Boards

From 06/2006 Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Industrial Engineering (EJIE) for Forecasting, production planning and control.

Journal Reviewer

	COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (C&OR), Elsevier
	COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (CMS), Springer
	DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS (DSS), Elsevier
	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR), Elsevier
	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, IEEE
	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH (IJCIR), Research India Publications
	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING (IJF), Elsevier
	NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, Springer
	SOFT COMPUTING, Springer

Conference Publication Reviewer

2006	International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN’07, jointly organised by ENNS and INNS
2006	IEEE 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN’07, jointly organised by IEEE and INNS
2007	European Symposium on Time Series Prediction, ESTSP’07, Helsinki, Finland
2007	IEEE 1st Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, CIDM’07, Hawaii, USA
2006	Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies, Information and Telecommunications, SETIT’06, Hammamet, Tunisia
2006	APNNA 2006 International Conference on Neural Information Processing ICONIP’06, Hong Kong, China
2006	IEEE 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN’06, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI’06, jointly organised by IEEE and INNS
2006	International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006, Merida, Spain
2006	Special session on "Forecasting in Logistics of Production and Inventory" held at the 2006 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, INCOM’06
2005	IEEE 2005 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN’05, jointly organised by IEEE and INNS
2004	IEEE 2004 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN’04, jointly organised by IEEE and INNS

Conference Committee Member

2006	Programme Committee of the 2006 1st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, CIDM’07, Hawaii, USA
2006	Programme committee of the 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, WORLDCOMP’06
2006	Programme committee of the 2006 Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies, Information and Telecommunications, SETIT’06, Hammamet, Tunisia
2006	International advisory board of the 2006 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006, Merida, Spain
2005	Technical programme committee for the 2005 Second World Congress on Lateral Computing, WCLC 2005
2005	Programme committee of the 2005 International Multi-Conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, IMCSCE’05
2005	Programme committee of the 2005 World Congress on Applied Computing, WCAC’05
2005	Scientific committee of the 2005 Conference on Sciences of Electro¬nics, Technologies, Information and Telecommunications, SETIT’05, Tunis, Tunisia
2004	Programme committee of the 2004 International Multi-Conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, IMCSCE’04

Chairman

2007	Workshop chair and organiser of the “NN3 Neural Network & Computational Intelligence Forecasting Competition” at the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN’07, Orlando, USA
2007	Session chair and organiser of the “NN3 Neural Network & Computational Intelligence Forecasting Competition” at the 2007 International Symposium on Forecasting, ISF’07, New York, USA
2006	General conference co-chair of the 2007 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN’07, Las Vegas, USA
2006	General conference chair of the 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN’06, Las Vegas, USA
2006	Chair and organiser of the conference Track on “Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting” at the 2006 International Symposium on Forecasting, ISF’06, Santander, Spain
2005	Invited chair and organiser of the conference track “Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting” consisting of 7 special sessions and 37 presentations, held at the 2005 International Symposium on Forecasting, ISF’05, San Antonio, USA - Chair of special sessions on “Neural Network Theory for Forecasting” and “Neural Network Applications in Forecasting” - Chair of special session and organiser of the “IIF Neural Network Forecasting Competition” at the ISF’05 Neural Networks Track
2005	Invited chair and organiser of the special session on “Computational Intelligence for Business Intelligence” at the 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’05, Las Vegas, USA
2005	Invited chair of special sessions on “Classification and Prediction” and “Data Mining Algorithms” at the 2005 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN’05, Las Vegas, USA
2005	Invited co-chair of conference track on “Neural Networks for Forecasting” at the 2005 Second World Congress on Lateral Computing, WCLC 2005, Bangalore, India
2004	Invited Chair of the special session on “Artificial Neural Networks for Business Intelligence” at the 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’04, Las Vegas, USA

Other Positions

since 2007	2007 Invited Competition Task force Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Data Mining, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
since 2007	Invited Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Mining, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
2006	Founding Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Mining, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
since 2004	WEBMASTER ON NEURAL NETWORKS ‘PRINCIPLES OF FORECASTING’
	Responsible for the webpages relating to Neural Networks at the forecasting website www.principlesofforecasting.com, hosted by Scott Armstrong, Wharton University, USA