Other Professional Activities Include

Member of the editorial board of the journal Knowledge Based Systems for over 10 years An international, interdisciplinary and applications-oriented journal on KBS
Member of the General Assembly of EurAi, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. The European Association for Artificial Intelligence EurAI (formerly ECCAI) was established in 1982 as a representative body for the European AI community. Its aim is to promote the study, research and application of Artificial Intelligence in Europe.
Member of the Specialist Groups Executive Committee of the British Computer Society (2001-4 and 2005-2009)
Formerly member of the Steering Committee for the joint EPSRC/DTI/CAA Programme of Research in Flightdeck IT for Enhanced Safety
Formerly member of the Network of Experts in Knowledge-Based Systems
Joint Local Arrangements Chair for the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) held in Edinburgh July 31st-August 5th 2005. IJCAI-05 was hosted by SGAI, The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence in its 25th anniversary year. IJCAI is the premier world AI conference. It returned to Britain in 2005 for the first time since 1971.
Founding member of the International Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). International Steering Committee Member 2001-2007. Conference Chair for ICDM '04 - The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) provides a premier international forum for the sharing of original research results and innovative, practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine learning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. ICDM is held annually, in different regions of the world.