Academic Activities

- Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), American Scientific Publishers.
- Editor-in-Chief of the international Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM), Rinton Press.
- Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC) by Troubador Publising.
- Foundation Member of Marco University – an International Consortium of a Federation of Virtual Universities since 1999.
- Associated Editor of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Idea Group Publishing/Information Science Publishing.
- Area Editor of the International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, World Scientific Publishing.
- Editor Board of the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC) by Inderscience Publishers.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Computing and Communications in the Journal of Mobile Multimedia (to appear in the Autumn of 2005).
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Wireless Sensors and Ad Hoc Networks in the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (to appear in the Winter of 2005).
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Advanced Networking and Applications for New Computing Paradigm in the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Winter Issue of 2004.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Applications, Services, and Infrastructures for Wireless and Mobile Computing in the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Spring Issue of 2005.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on High Speed Networking and Multimedia Communications, in the International Journal of Interconnection Network, Vol.5, No.3, September 2004.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications in the international Journal of Applied System Studies, 2004.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Multimedia Networking and Wireless Communications in the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Spring Issue of 2004.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Advanced Information Networking: Architectures and Algorithms, Part I – QoS, Switching Techniques and On-line Broadcasting, in the International Journal of Interconnection Network, June, 2003.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Advanced Information Networking: Architectures and Algorithms, Part II – Ad-Hoc Networks and Mobile Computing, in the International Journal of Interconnection Network, September, 2003.
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Web and WAP Oriental Languages Multimedia Computing in the International Journal of CPOL (2002).
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Multimedia Software Engineering in the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (2001).
- Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Virtual University in the International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (2000).

- Steering Member of the IEEE Annual International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA).
- Steering Member & Panel Chair of the 2005 International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC’2005), Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-9, 2005.
- Steering Committee Chair of the International Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2005.
- Steering Co-Chair of the First IFIP Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05), Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-9, 2005.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’06), Vienna, April 18-20, 2006.
- Workshops Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005), Irvine, California, December 12-14, 2005.
- General Co-Chair of the Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005), Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-7, 2005.
- International Relations Co-Chair of the 13th Workshop on Multimedia and Distributed Systems, Okinawa, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2005.
- Workshops Co-Chair of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS-2005) for managing and coordinating the following 9 international workshops:
  - Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems (PDES-05)
  - System and Networking for Smart Objects (SaNSO 2005)
  - Performance Modelling in Wired, Wireless, Mobile Networking and Computing
  - Network-based Virtual Reality and Tele-existence (INVITE’2005)
  - Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS-05)
  - High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPCoMB-05)
  - Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (HWISE’2005)
  - Reliability and Autonomic Management of Parallel and Distributed Systems (RAMPDS-05)
  - Performance Modeling and Analysis of Communication in Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Networks (PMAC-PDG’05)
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 27-30, 2005.
- Publication Co-Chair of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’05), Taipei, March, 2005.
- Publicity Chair of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2005), Coventry, UK, May, 2005.
- Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW2005), Taiwan, March 28-30, 2005.
- General Co-Chair of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’04), Fukuoka, March, 2004.
- General Co-Chair of the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA’2004), Tokyo, March, 2004.
- Program Committee Vice-Chair of the International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), Aizu, August, 2004.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the International Conference on Advanced Information Networks and Applications (AINA’03), Xi’an, March, 2003.
- Workshops Coordinator of the following international workshops in San Francisco, September, 2002.
  - Workshop on Internet Computing and Multimedia (ICaM’02)
  - Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Systems and Technologies (MDEST’02)
  - Workshop on XML in Digital Media (XMLinDM’02)
  - Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security (CNS’02)
  - Workshop on Mobile Systems, E-commerce and Agent Technology (MSEAT’02)
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Cyber Worlds (CW2002), Tokyo, November, 2002.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the 7th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Taiwan, September 2001.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of 2000 Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education, Chicago, USA, July 2000.
- Co-Chair of the Panel of E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Entertainment in the ICCLC, Chicago, July 2000.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the Sixth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS99), Japan, July 1999.

Program Committee Member of the 12th International Conference on Multi-Media Model (MMM’06), Beijin, January, 2006.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing Systems (SecUbiq-05), Japan, December 6-9, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the IFIP International Symposium on Network-Centric Ubiquitous Systems (NCUS 2005), Nagasaki, Japan, 6-9 December 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 4th International Conference on Cyber Worlds (CW2005), Singapore, November, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Nanjing, China, Nov. 2-5, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 13th Workshop on Multimedia Communication and Distributed Processing, Okinawa, Japan, November, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the IADIS WWW/Internet 2005 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October, 2005.
Advisory Committee Member of the International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies, Banff, Canada, September 2005.
Program Committee Member of the Third International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (MoMM2005), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 19-21, 2005
Program Committee Member of the 2005 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2005), Shanghai, September, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the Eighth International Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2005), Hong Kong, August, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (HWISE’2005), Fukuok, Japan, July 2005.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS-05), Fukuok, Japan, July 2005.
Program Committee Member of the the 7th International Conference on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 16th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, San Diego, USA, May, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Web and Mobile Information Systems (WAMIS’05), Tapei, March, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 11th International Conference on Multi-Media Model (MMM’05), Melbourne, Australia, January, 2005.
Program Committee Member of the 12th Workshop on Multimedia and Distributed Systems, Ishikawa, December, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA’04), Hong Kong, November, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the 3rd International Conference on Cyber Worlds (CW’03), Tokyo, December, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the IADIS WWW/Internet 2004 Conference, Madrid, Spain, October, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies (DET’04), San Francisco, September, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Chinese Language Computing, San Francisco, September, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the 2004 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2004), Wuhan, September, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on VISual Information Systems (VIS’04), San Francisco, September, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Knowledge Economy and Development of Science and Technology (KEST2004), Beijing, September 2004.
Program Committee Member of the Seventh International Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems, Zaragoza, Spain, August, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN-04), Las Vegas, June 2004.
Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education (ICIMADE’04 ), New York, June 2004.
Program Committee Member of the 15th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, New Orleans, USA, May, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the Multimedia and Visualization track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 14-17, 2004
Program Committee Member of the 10th International Conference on Multi-Media Model (MMM’04), Brisbane, Australia, January, 2004.
Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Conference on Cyber Worlds (CW’03), Singapore, December, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the IADIS WWW/Internet 2003 Conference, Algarve, Portugal, November, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 6th International Conference on VISual Information Systems (VIS’03), Florida, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the Sixth International Workshop on Network-Based Information Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’03), Miami, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies (DET2003), Miami, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 20th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL03), Shenyang, China, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Research Directions and Challenge Problems in Advanced Information Systems Engineering (KEST03W), Honjo, Akita, Japan, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the Third International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2003), Wuhan, China, September, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA’2003), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, May/June, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Multi-Media Model (MMM’03), Taiwan, January, 2003.
Program Committee Member of the 15th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, San Diego, November 2002
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Systems and Technologies, San Francisco, September, 2002.
Program Committee Member of the Third International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2002), Aizu-wakamatsu, September, 2002.
Program Committee Member of the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language Computing, Taiwan July, 2002.
Program Committee Member of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA’2002), Vienna, 2002.
Program Committee Member of the First Pacific Asian Huamn.Society@Internet Conference, Seoul, July, 2001.
Program Committee Member of the Nineteenth International conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL’2001), Seoul, Korea, May 2001.
Program Committee Member of 2000 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing, Chicago, USA, July 2000.
Program Committee Member of VISUAL 2000 — 4th International Conference on Visual Information Systems Lyon, France, November 2000
Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Information Society in the 21st Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS2000), Japan, November 2000.
Session Chair in the International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education, Fargo,�@ND, USA, June, 2001.
Session Chair in the International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL’2001), Seoul, Korea, May 2001.
Session Chair in the International Conference on Computer Assisted Instruction and Internet Computing, Taipei, October 2000.
Session Chair in the International Conference on Information Society, 2000.
Session Chair in the 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, Chiba, Japan, November 1999.
Session Chair in 10th International Conference Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS’98), Las Vegas, October 1998.
Session Chair in the Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’98), Taipei, July 1998.
Session Chair in 15th International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 1997.
Session Chair in the First International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Australia, February 1996.