Professional Activities

  • Fellow, IEEE.
  • Member of the Association of Computing Machinery.
  • Program Committee Member, the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010), Singapore, Sept. 2010.
  • Program Committee Member, Industrial and Applications, the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, Mar. 2010.
  • Program Committee Member, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Long Beach, CA, Mar. 2010.
  • Program Committee Member, the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2009), Washington, DC, Nov. 2009.
  • Program Committee Member, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2009), Vienna, Austria, July 2009.
  • Industrial Chair for the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.
  • Program Vice Chair for the "Pervasive Services and Data Management" track for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2008), Taichung, Taiwan, June 2008.
  • Program Committee Member for the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007), White Plains, NY, Nov. 2007.
  • Program co-Chair for IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'07), Tokyo, Japan, July 2007.
  • Industrial Track co-Chair for ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, VA, Nov. 2006.
  • Program Committee Member for IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2006.
  • Publication Chair for Joint Conferences on IEEE International Conference on e-Commerce Technology (CEC 2006) and IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE 2006), San Francisco, CA, July 2006.
  • Program Committee Member for the 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM 2005.
  • Program Committee Member for the 1st International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet, Columbus, OH, June 2005.
  • Program Committee Member for IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce, ECE 2005, Munich, Germany, July 2005.
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2000 to 2004.
  • Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce, San Diego, CA, July 2004.
  • Program Committee Member for the 6th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM 2004.
  • Program Committee Member for the 5th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, New Orleans, LA, WIDM 2003
  • Program Committee Member for the International Workshop on Data Mining for Actionable Knowledge (DMAK) 2003, Seoul, Korea.
  • Program Committee Member for the 4th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM 002.
  • Program Committee Member for the 4th International Workshop on Advanced Issues on E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, WECWIS 2002, Newport Beach, CA, June 2002.
  • General Chair for the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Issues on E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, WECWIS 2001, San Jose, CA, June 2001.
  • Publication Chair and Program Committee member for the 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Issues on E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems, WECWIS 2000, San Jose, CA, June 2000.
  • Program Committee Member for 15th International Conference on Data Engineering, Sidney, Australia, March 1999.
  • Financial Chair for the 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, Orlando, FL, Feb. 1998.
  • Publication Chair for the 14th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Bad Neuenahr, Germany, Sept. 1995.
  • Publication Chair and Program Committee member for the 11th International Conferenceon Data Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1995.
  • Publication Chair for the Second Int. Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing (RIDE-TQP), Tempe, AZ, Feb. 1992.