• Editor-in-Chief

  • International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management

• Editorial Board

  • International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC)

  • The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

• Associate Editors

  • International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS)

• Editorial Review Board

  • International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (2002-2007)

• General Chair

  1. The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-07), Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA, August 13 - 15, 2007.
  2. The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2006), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, September 16-18, 2006.
  3. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Security and Pervasive Multimedia Environments (MultiSec 2006), San Diego, California, USA, December 11-13, 2006.
  4. International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Computing (ParDMCom-06), Sorrento, Italy, December 1-4, 2006.
  5. The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Pervasive Multimedia Environments, December 12-14, 2005, Irvine, California, USA.
  6. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 15-17, 2005, Las Vegas, Neveda, USA.
  7. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, November 1-3, 2004, Las Vegas, Neveda, USA.
  8. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, October 27-29, 2003, Las Vegas, Neveda, USA.

• Program Chair

  1. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007), Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 10-12, 2007.
  2. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM'07), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April 15, 2007.
  3. The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM'06), in conjunction with International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 8, 2006.
  4. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2006), San Diego, California, USA, December 11-13, 2006.
  5. The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'05), in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005), Irvine, CA, December 12-14, 2005.
  6. The IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technology and Ubiquitous Computing (MTUC 2006), Taichung, Taiwan, June 5-7, 2006, to be held in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2006).
  7. The Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB'04), November 12, 2004, Hyatt Arlington Hotel, Arlington, VA, USA.
  8. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2004), December 13-15, 2004, Miami, USA.
  9. The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB'03), November 7, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  10. The 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2003), September 24 - 26, 2003, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
  11. The 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS'02), McLean, VA, November 8-9, 2002.
  12. The International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2003), July 20-25, Quebec, Canada, 2003.
  13. The International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2002), July 14-18, San Diego, USA, 2002.
  14. 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000), November 1 - 3, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

• Program Area Chair

  1. The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), January 9-12, 2007, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• Steering Committee

1. The 2007 International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia & Intelligent Services in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 2007 (IMIS-07), April 26-28, 2007, Seoul, Korea.

• Program Committee

1. The 2009 International Symposium on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.
2. The 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-09), Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.
3. The 2009 International Symposium on Database Theory and Application (DTA 2009), Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.
4. International Joint Journal Conference in Engineering (IJJCE 2009), Kerala, India.
5. 2009 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2009), Redwood City, California, USA, September 10-12, 2009.
6. 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009), Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 4, 2009.
7. Computer and Network Security Symposium, in conjunction with IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), Maris Conference Centers, Chania, Crete Island, Greece, August 6-8, 2008.
8. The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Barriers towards INternet-Driven Informat ion Services (BINDIS 2009), Seattle, USA, July 20-July 24, 2009, in conjunction with COMPSAC 2009.
9. The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Colmar, France, July 19-24, 2009.
10. 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2009), Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009.
11. The 2009 International Workshop on Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Security (CGMS-09), Korea University, Seoul, Korea, June 25-27, 2009, in conjuction with ISA-09.
12. 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Shanghai, China, June 1-3, 2009.
13. The 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, Catholic University of Daegu, May 27-29, 2009.
14. The 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 18-22, 2009.
15. 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09), Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009.
16. The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2009), Okayama, Japan, March 26 - 29, 2009.
17. 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing (CINC 2009), Hubei, China, January 12-13, 2009.
18. The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008.
19. 1st ACM International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience, Vancouver, Canada, October 31, 2008, in Conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008.
20. 2008 International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIP 2008), Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008.
21. The First International Workshop on Real Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA'08), in conjunction with IEEE COMPSAC 2008, Turku, Finland, July 28-August 1, 2008.
22. The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS'08), in conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'08), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. September 29 - October 2, 2008.
23. The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapore, October 12 - 15, 2008.
24. IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2008), Xi'an, China, October 22-24, 2008.
25. The 1st International Workshop on Wireless Security and Privacy (WiSP'08), in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08), Beijing, China, June 20, 2008.
26. First Pacific-Asia Workshop on Web Mining and Web-based Application, in conjunction with The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 20, 2008.
27. 9th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2008), Phuket, Thailand, August 6 - 8, 2008.
28. SIGMAP 2008 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Porto, Portugal, July 26-29, 2008.
29. The 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2008), San Francisco Bay, USA, July 1-3, 2008.
30. The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008.
31. The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008.
32. 5th International Workshop on Software Cybernetics (IWSC'08), in conjunction with the 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008.
33. Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2008), Santa Clara, CA, USA, August 4th-7th, 2008.
34. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Sanya, China, April 6-8, 2008.
35. 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Kunming, China, July 12-15, 2008.
36. The Computer and Network Security Symposium, in conjunction with the ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2008 (IWCMC 08), Crete Island, Greece, August 6-8, 2008.
37. 7th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, in conjunction with 2nd IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on e-Activity (IEEE-IWEA2008), Portland, Oregon, USA, May 14 - 16, 2008.
38. The 2008 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2008), Hyatt Harborside, Boston, USA, September 4-6, 2008.
39. The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom2008), November 13 - 16, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA.
40. The 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), Irvine, California, USA, May 19-23, 2008.
41. The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08), Paris, France, October 26-30, 2008.
42. IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2008, Algarve, Portugal, April 10-13, 2008.
43. The Eight International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2007), in conjunction with The Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), August 12, 2007, San Jose, CA, USA.
44. The Second International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration, 2007 (TrustCol-2007), in conjuction with CollaborateCom 2007, White Plains, New York, USA, November 12, 2007.
45. The 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Home (WISH-07), in conjunction with The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, August 29-Septyember 1, 2007.
46. The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07), October 11-13, 2007, Jeju Island, Korea.
47. 2007 International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (SCMS07), in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California.
48. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS 2007), held in conjunction with 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2007), October 8, 2007, Pisa, Italy.
49. SIGMAP 2007 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, July 28-31, Barcelona, Spain.
50. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2007), October 7-10, 2007, Montreal, Canada.
51. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artifical Intelligence (ICTAI-2007), October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece.
52. International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, August 19-22, 2007, Hong Kong, China.
53. 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2007), July 30-Aug 1, 2007, Qingdao, China.
54. IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2007), October 24-26, 2007, Hong Kong, China.
55. The Thirteenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2007), September 6-8, 2007, San Francisco Bay, USA.
56. Computer and Network Security Symposium, in conjunction with International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2007 (IWCMC 07), August 12-16, 2007, Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii.
57. The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'07), May 22 - 25, 2007, Nanjing, China.
58. IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'07), National Center of Sciences, Tokyo,Japan, June 23-26, 2007.
59. 2007 IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC07), London, United Kingdom, April 15-17, 2007.
60. IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2007, Salamanca, Spain, February 17-20, 2007.
61. The Third International Workshop on Information Assurance (WIA-2007), in conjunction with The 26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC-2007) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 11-13, 2007.
62. The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007), Boston, USA, July 9-11, 2007.
63. The 1st International Workshop on Semantic-enhanced Multimedia Presentation Systems (SEMPS), in collaboration with the 1st International Conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) Athens, Greece, December 6, 2006.
64. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligent, Washington D.C., Nov. 13-15, 2006.
65. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), San Diego, CA, December 11-13, 2006.
66. Seventh International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2006), in conjunction with The Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2006), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 20-23, 2006.
67. Workshop on Trusted Collaboration 2006 (TrustCol-2006), in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 17th - 20th, 2006.
68. The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'07), May 22 - 25, 2007, Nanjing, China.
69. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Canada.
70. The International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, August 15 -18, 2006, Xian, China.
71. IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'06) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'06), June 26-29, 2006, San Francisco, California.
72. The Twelfth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS '06), August 30-September 1, 2006, Grand Canyon, USA.
73. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2006), October 8-11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
74. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, April 23-25, 2006, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
75. Computer and Network Security Symposium, July 3-6, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
76. The 20th IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2006), April 18-20, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
77. The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005), October 18-21, 2005, Tsinghua University, China.
78. Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking, July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
79. The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, July 4-6,, 2005, Lille, France.
80. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2005), August 8 - 10, 2005, University of California, Irvine, USA.
81. The Eleventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2005), September 5 - 7, 2005, Banff, Canada.
82. The 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications, in conjunction with ICDCS-2005, June 6-9, 2005, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
83. The 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2005), March 28-30, 2005, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
84. The First International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS'04), December 9-10, 2004, Hangzhou, PRC.
85. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2004), November 15-17, 2004, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
86. 1st International Symposium of Web Intelligence and Security (WIS 2005), July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
87. 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, May 25-28, 2005, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.
88. 15th IRMA International Conference, May 23-26, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
89. The 2004 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2004), August 26-28, 2004, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan.
90. The Tenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2004), September 8 - 10, 2004, Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, USA.
91. The 11th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS'03), November 7-8, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
92. The 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA'2004), in conjunction with The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2004), Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.
93. The 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2004), Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan, March 29-31, 2004.
94. 2004 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, New Orleans, May 23-26, USA.
95. The 8th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2002), September 26 - 28, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.
96. The International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2002), San Diego, CA USA, 2002.
97. The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida.
98. First International Workshop on Web Geographical Information Systems WGIS 2001 in conjunction with WISE 2001 2nd International Conferrence on Web Information Systems Engineering, December 3, 2001, Kyoto, Japan.
99. The Seventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2001), September 26 - 28, 2001, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan.
100. The 3rd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2001), November 27 - 29, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada USA.
101. The International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering, June 25-28, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
102. The Second International Workshop on Software Engineering and Multimedia Applications (SEMA-2000).

• Workshop Chair

  1. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), San Diego, CA, December 11-13, 2006.
  2. 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), Irvine, CA, December 12-14, 2005.

• Tools Demonstration Chair

  1. 26th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, Miami, Florida, June 20-25, 2005.

• Co-Chair: Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent System

  1. IEEE SMC Society

• Guest Editor for Journal Special Issue

  1. Special issue on "ACM GIS'03 Symposium," Geoinformatica (Kluwer).
  2. Special issue on "Multimedia Databases," Multimedia Tools and Application Journal (MTAP, Kluwer).
  3. Special issue on "Multimedia Networking and Wireless Communications," The International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC, Inderscience Publishers).
  4. Special issue on "Distributed Adaptation, Representation and Processing of Multimedia Information," Multimedia Tools and Application Journal (MTAP, Kluwer).
  5. Special Issue on "Data Mining Applications", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.

• Session Chair

  CAINE-99, IRI-2000, IEEE SMC-2000, ISE02, IEEE ICTAI'02, IEEE MSE'02, MTUC'06.

• Panelist

  IRI-99, IRI-01, IRI'05, IRI'06

• Tutorials

  1. IRI-01, "Multimedia Information Systems: Research and Development Issues"
  2. ISE-02, "Data Processing and Retrieval in Multimedia Database Systems"

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Phone: 305-348-3480
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E-mail: chens@cs.fiu.edu
 
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science, 2004-Present
 
Director
Distributed Multimedia Information System Laboratory
 
Associate Director
The Center for Advanced Distributed System Engineering
 
Florida International University,
The State University of Florida at Miami