National and International Committees Served:

• Panelist, Associateship Program at NRC (National Research Council). Computer Science area. From Spring of 2002 to present. Washington, DC.



• Panelist, COBASE Program (Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering) at NRC (National Research Council). Computer Science area. Also, for the CAST Program. Two terms, 1997 - 2001, Washington, DC.



• Head, Center of Competency in the Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods area, International Academy for Advanced Decision Support (click here to see an MS Word document with a description) or (click here to see a short Power Point slide show on this center). Peter Kiewit Institute, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, (Click here for more details). From the Fall of 2001 to present.



• Member of the Advisory Board for the COMMORG Project. This is a large scale effort by a consortium of six Universities and Research Institutes from Greece, Italy, UK, and The Netherlands. This effort is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Information Society Technology (IST) Programme. For more information on this project please check the project's website at: http://www.commorg.net. From the Fall of 2001 to present.



• Program Committee Member. INFORMS (former ORSA/TIMS) Computer Science Technical Section (CSTS) '97 International Conference, January 7-9, 1998, Monterey, Calif., U.S.A.



• Member of the INFORMS (former ORSA/TIMS) Outreach Committee. From July 1996 to March 1997.



• Program Committee Member. FUZZ-IEEE '96 International Conference, September 8-11, 1996, New Orleans, LA. Also served as Chairman of the Students Support & Awards Committee during the same conference.



• Visiting Lecturer in Operations Research and Management Science. This is an INFORMS (former ORSA/TIMS) International Program. From January of 1994 - present. Also, served as Chairman of this Program from 1995 to 1997.



• Proposal Reviewer and Panelist (five times) for National Science Foundation ( NSF ): Decision, Risk and Management Science / SBIR Program, OR (Operations Research), ITR (Information Technology Research program) ; for both small size and large size (more than $1 million) projects, multiple times panelist and proposal reviewer.



• Program Committee Member and Chair of Industry Sessions. INFORMS (former ORSA/TIMS) International Meeting, October 29 - November 1, 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. (To see the Conference's webpage click here.)



• International Programme Committee Member. ANNES'93: The First New Zealand International Two-stream Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, November 24-26, 1993, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.