Prof. José Alfredo F. Costa, Dr. Eng.

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Professor Titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

Formação:

Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica (Eng. Computação e Automação) pela UNICAMP (DCA/FEEC, Campinas, SP, dezembro, 1999)
Pós-doutorado pela Universidade de Manchester, Inglaterra (2009/2010)
Pós-doutorado pela UNICAMP (DCA/FEEC, Campinas, SP) (2001)
Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica pela USP - Universidade de São Paulo (EESC, São Carlos, SP, Janeiro, 1996, com distinção e louvor)
Especialização em Engenharia de Produção (UFSCar, SP, 1996)
Especialização em Engenharia de Computação (UFRN, 1993)
Graduado em Engenharia Elétrica (com Ênfase em Eletrônica) pela UFRN (Natal, RN, Julho, 1992)

OBS: Em nosso melhor conhecimento, sua tese de doutorado foi a primeira na UNICAMP/SP versando sobre Mapas de Kohonen (redes neurais não supervisionadas) e sua dissertação de mestrado foi a primeira em Redes Neurais Arficiais na Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos / USP.

Bacharel em Direito (UNI-RN, 2015), aprovado no XVIII Exame de Ordem (OAB) Unificado (FGV, 2015)
Especialização em Direito Administrativo pela UFRN (janeiro, 2018) , com trabalho intitulado "Transparência e o Direito à Informação como Aliados da Eficiência, Legitimidade e Cidadania na Administração Pública", abordando temas como dados abertos, gestão pública, eficiência, cidadania e controle social.
Especialização em Direito Digital e Compliance (IBMEC/Damásio, 2020)

UFRN – Turmas em 2024.1

Graduação:

DPR 043 – DIREITO DIGITAL – 60 h. Horário: 2N1234
ELE 606 – TOPICOS ESPECIAIS EM INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL – 60 h. Horário: 4N1234
ELE 0515 - CIRCUITOS LÓGICOS, 60h, Horário: T1 25M56 (local: 4G5)
ELE 0518 – LABORATORIO DE SISTEMAS DIGITAIS, 45h, Horário: T1 6M123 (local: Lab. Eletrônica, NTI)

Pós-Graduação:

PRO8301 – GESTÃO ESTRATÉGICA E ORGANIZACIONAL (60h), Horário: 5N1234

Atuação em comissões e conselhos:

Membro da Comissão de Direito e Tecnologia da Informação da OAB/RN, desde 2016
Membro da Comissão de Direito Digital OAB/RN, desde 2018.
Atuou como Membro do Conselho Universitário da UFRN (CONSUNI, 2020 a 2021)
Membro do Conselho de Administração da UFRN (CONSAD, 2015 a 2020), tendo também participado de outros conselhos universitários superiores, como o CONSEPE e CONSUNI em períodos anteriores.
Membro do Comitê Permanente de Segurança da Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Portaria 274/18-R), entre 2018/2021.
Participa de câmaras departamentais e do Centro de Tecnologia. Participou da Câmara de Gestão de Pessoas da UFRN entre 2015 e 2020.
Membro do Comitê Gestor para elaborar, implementar e acompanhar a política de segurança da informação relativa ao acervo acadêmico da UFRN (2021 – *)

Atuação em gestão na UFRN:

Atuou como coordenador do PEP - Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção (Fevereiro de 2019 – março de 2021).
Atuou como vice-coordenador do PEP/UFRN no período (Janeiro de 2015 a janeiro de 2019).
Chefe do Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica (2004-2006).
Atuou como representante docente no CONSEC/CT entre 2007-2009 e 2010-2014.
Coordena o Laboratório de Sistemas Adaptativos na UFRN.

Participação em Sociedades científicas:

Atuou entre 2009 e 2013 como presidente da SBIC – Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional (antiga SBRN – Sociedade Brasileira de Redes Neurais). Atuou como membro do conselho superior da SBIC entre 2013 e 2017. É membro do Conselho Diretor da SBIC/ABRICOM – (Diretor Tesoureiro, 2017-2023).
Membro do IEEE – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering e da IEEE CIS – Computacional Intelligence Society (1994-2018).
Membro da Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) desde 2020.

Atuação em ensino:

Leciona, atualmente, disciplinas na Pós-graduação incluindo Gestão Estratégica Organizacional e Inteligência Computacional.
Leciona na graduação disciplinas como Circuitos Digitais, Tópicos em Inteligência Artificial, Laboratórios de Sistemas Digitais. entre outras.

Orientação:

Orientou oito teses de doutorado e mais de trinta dissertações de mestrado, além de mais de uma centena de trabalhos de graduação, estágio e iniciação científica.

Publicações:

Co-autor do livro "Uma introdução a mineração de dados: conceitos e aplicações", Ed. UFERSA (2014), publicou vários capítulos de livros e artigos completos em periódicos e anais de eventos nacionais e internacionais.
Uma lista de artigos publicada na área de computação pode ser vista neste link.
Alguns artigos publicados na plataforma IEEE Xplore podem ser vistos neste link.

Clique aqui para outras informações e atividades.

Link para Lattes: lattes.cnpq.br/9745845064013172.

Participações em bancas: https://ct.ufrn.br/alfredo/?page_id=888

Algumas palestras recentes (Some recent talks):

Questões Éticas em Inteligência Artificial: Desafios e Reflexões. Palestra em 10 de novembro de 2023, no auditório da Universidade Federal de Lavras. Palestra de encerramento do XXXVI CIUFLA – Congresso Unificado da UFLA, Lavras, Minas Gerais. https://congressos.ufla.br/#programacaoxxxiicpg
Inteligência Artificial aplicada a educação e engenharia: Desafios e questões éticas. No Workshop de Engenharia Elétrica 2023, auditório do Centro de Tecnologia, UFRN, Natal/RN (14/11/2023).
Algoritmos x humanismo. Palestra em 6 de junho de 2023, durante o V Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Bioética do CFM e II Encontro Ibero Americano de Bioética do CFM. Brasília, DF.
Introdução a machine learning usando Python, no 15º Meetup do GruPy-RN (Sebrae-RN), Natal/RN, 6 de maio de 2023.
Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação. Palestra em 17/9/22, no Congresso Nacional de Processo, Constituição e Tecnologia, no Centro de Convenções e Feiras da Amazônia – Hangar, em Belém, realização da UNAMA – Universidade da Amazônia.
Os desafios da Indústria 4.0 no Brasil. Abertura do IV Seminário de Direito Digital – NEDDIG / UFRN (10 a 12 de novembro de 2021). Disponível em https://youtu.be/x6DvvDiNVDg.
Considerations on ethics in AI applications. Keynote speak at LA-CCI 2021 – 7th Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence. Nov 4th, 2021. Universidade de LaFrontera, Temuco, Chile. https://fbln.me/lacci/
Aplicações de Inteligência Artificial no universo Jurídico e o panorama regulatório. Seminário – UFRN. 22/10/2021
Inteligência Artificial: Discussões sobre aplicações, suas implicações na sociedade e balizamento do uso ético da tecnologia. 19/10/2021. Seminário São Pedro, Natal, RN.
Desafios no uso de inteligência artificial no judiciário. Palestra convidada – International Cyberlaw Conference, 15/5/2021. Evento realizado pelo Portal Juristas e a Digital Law Academy realizarão, nos dias 14 e 15 de maio de 2021.
Desafios da Justiça 4.0. Palestra convidada para o lançamento do programa Justiça 4.0 do TJRN e OAB/RN, em 29/4/2021. https://www.cnj.jus.br/rn-webinario-nesta-quinta-feira-29-4-debate-desafios-da-justica-4-0/
Visualização e Agrupamento de Dados Usando Mapas Auto-Organizáveis. Palestra de abertura da Escola da Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional, da SBIC, em 26 de outubro de 2020. https://youtu.be/vBBLdc69NKc
Dados abertos, inteligência artificial e tecnologias de reconhecimento facial (Painel: Dados abertos e tecnologias de reconhecimento facial) no OPEN DATA DAY NATAL, 6 de março de 2020, Auditório B205, IMD, UFRN, Natal, RN.
A inteligência artificial e seus impactos jurídicos na sociedade. Palestra no I Encontro Regional de Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação. 07/12/2019, IMD – Instituto Metropóle Digital – Natal, RN.
Self-organizing maps: theory and applications. ESPOL – Guayaquil, Ecuador. Nov 19th, 2019.
Artificial Intelligence – Risks and Legal Challenges. Talk at the XXIII Ibero-American Congress of Law and Informatics and the X Telecon, October 1st and 4th, at the USP Law School and the AASP (São Paulo Law Association), São Paulo, SP.
General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD) – Key aspects and applications. Lecture at the III WTR – Network Technologies Workshop, September 2 to 6, 2019. Lecture took place on 6/9/19, at IMD – Instituto Metropole Digital, UFRN.
Artificial intelligence and its legal impacts on society. Lecture at the OAB – RN ESA (Superior School of Advocacy), on July 30, 2019, at the Connections – OAB Project, of the Digital Law Commission. Natal, RN.
Publishing your paper. Presentation / panel / table at the 16th CONTECSI USP – International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management – ISSN 2448-1041, which took place on May 30, 2019, at the FEA-USP Amphitheater in São Paulo, SP.
Recent Advances in Data Clustering using Self-Organizing Neural Networks (Date: May 18th, 2018). Invited talk at IEEE ColCACI 2018 – 1st IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence, Medellin, Colombia, May 16-18th 2018. https://ieee-colcaci.org/
Data clustering using Self-Organizing Neural Networks. Palestra na University of Manchester, SISP Group, 3rd March 2010, Manchester, UK.
Data clustering using Self-Organizing Neural Networks. Palestra na Peking University, Departament of Intelligence Sciences, PKU, Sept 29, 2008, Beijing, China
Análise de agrupamentos usando Mapas de Kohonen. Palestra no DETI-UFC, Fortaleza, CE, 11 março 2008 – UFC-DETI (Brasil).

Research interests:

Intelligence Science and Technology: Learning models. Data Mining & Business Intelligence (including Neural Networks and Self-organizing Systems; Data Visualization and Clustering);
Strategy and continuous improvement: including innovation, Kaizen, 6S, Performance measurement and Balanced Scorecards;
Digital society: including Data Collection and Individual Rights, Law, Cybercrime, Privacy, Transparency, e-GOV and Digital Democracy;

Some selected publications:

Costa, J.A.F., Dantas, N.C.D., Silva, E.D.S.A. (2023). Evaluating Text Classification in the Legal Domain Using BERT Embeddings. In: Quaresma, P., Camacho, D., Yin, H., Gonçalves, T., Julian, V., Tallón-Ballesteros, A.J. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2023. IDEAL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14404. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48232-8_6
Ferreira, L., Palhares, R. A., Santi, E., Costa, J. A. F. (2022). W-FRIM: a weighted fuzzy RIM approach. Expert Systems With Applications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117826
Galdino Jr., J.B, Hékis, H., Costa, J.A.F., et al. (2022). Application of the QFD-fuzzy-SERVQUAL methodology as a quality planning tool at the surgical centre of a public teaching hospital. BMC medical informatics and decision making, vol. 22(1):8. DOI: 10.1186/s12911-022-01746-4
Araújo D.C., Lima A., Lima J.P., Costa J.A. (2021) A Comparison of Classification Methods Applied to Legal Text Data. In: Marreiros G., Melo F.S., Lau N., Lopes Cardoso H., Reis L.P. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12981. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_6. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_6
Lima, J. P. S., Araújo, D. C. A., Costa, J. A. F. (2021). Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods for Brazilian Legal Documents Clustering. In: Proc. IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, Temuco-Chile, November 2-4th. Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9769839
L.V. Oliveira, H. Santos, A. Mariana, J.A.F. Costa (2020). Quality Function Deployment and Analytic Hierarchy Process (QFD–AHP): A literature review of their joint application. Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1063293X20958936
Rodrigues A.G..F., Costa J.A.F., da Silva S.S.A. (2020) Quality of Service Evaluation of a University Library Using Text Mining and Kohonen Self-organizing Maps. In: Leiras A., González-Calderón C., de Brito Junior I., Villa S., Yoshizaki H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, Pages 27-35. Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-23816-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_3
Cabral, M. A. L., et al., (2019). "Automated classification of tribological faults of alternative systems with the use of unsupervised artificial neural networks". Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. Vol. 16, Iss. 7, pp. 2644–2659. Link
F. A. P. Paiva, J. A. F. Costa and C. R. M. Silva (2018). An alternative approach for particle swarm optimisation using serendipity. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 81-90. http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijbic&year=2018&vol=11&issue=2#issue
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2017.10004328
Costa, I.S.G., Costa, J.A.F., Nobrega, K.C. (2018). Desenvolvimento de modelo de balanced scorecard para instituições privadas de ensino fundamental e médio. Revista Produção Online, V. 18, N. 4 (2018), pp. 1159-1180. Doi: 10.14488/1676-1901.v18i4.2737 URL: https://producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/2737
L. A. Pasa, José Alfredo F. Costa, M. G. de Medeiros (2017). An ensemble algorithm for Kohonen self-organizing map with different sizes. Logic Journal of the IGPL, Volume 25, Issue 6, 1 December 2017, Pages 1020–1033. https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzx046 https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzx046. URL: https://academic.oup.com/jigpal/article/25/6/1020/4210134
F. A. P. Paiva, J. A. F. Costa and C. R. M. Silva (2017). A Serendipity-Based Approach to Enhance Particle Swarm Optimization Using Scout Particles. IEEE Latin America Transactions, v. 15, n. 6, June 2017, pp. 1101-1112. Link: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/9/etrans/ieee/issues/vol15/vol15issue06June2017/15TLA6_13ProcopioPaiva.pdf
F. A. P. Paiva, José Alfredo F. Costa, C. R. M. Silva (2016). A Serendipity Based PSO Approach to Delay Premature Convergence Using Scout Particle. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information & Control, v. 12, p. 1141-1163, 2016. Link: http://www.ijicic.org/ijicic-120409.pdf
G. S. Silva, T. C. Mattozo, Jose Alfredo F. Costa, A. P. Fernandes Neto, R. L. S. Franca (2015). Mobile Communications Market Segmentation: An Analysis of Data Combining Self-organizing Maps and Structural Equation Modeling. IEEE Latin America Transactions, v. 13, p.2390-2397, 2015. Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7273803/
L. A. Pasa, José Alfredo Ferreira Costa, M. G. Medeiros. A Contribution to the Study of Ensemble of Self-Organizing Maps. Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Online), v. 2015, p. 110, 2015. Link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2015/592549/
Aluisio I. R. Fontes, F. M. Abinader Jr., Vicente A. de Sousa Jr., José Alfredo F. Costa, Luiz F. Q. Siqueira (2013). Automatic Modulation Classification Using Information Theoretic Similarity Measures. Journal of Communication and Computer, v. 10, p. 944-950. Link: http://www.davidpublishing.com/davidpublishing/Upfile/11/13/2013/2013111306173124.pdf
M. L. Gonçalves, M. L. A. Netto, J. A. F. Costa, J. Zullo (2008). A new method for unsupervised classification of remotely sensed images using Kohonen self-organizing maps and agglomerative hierarchical clustering methods. International Journal of Remote Sensing (Print) , v. 29, p. 3171-3207, 2008. Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160701442146
J. A. F. Costa, M. L. A. Netto (2007). Segmentação de Mapas Auto-Organizáveis com Espaço de Saída 3D. Controle & Automação, v. 18, p. 150-162, 2007. Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-17592007000200002
F.C. Vieira, Adrião D. Dória Neto, J. A. F. Costa (2003). An Efficient Approach to the Travelling Salesman Problem Using Self-Organizing Maps. International Journal of Neural Systems, London, UK, v. 13, n.2, p. 59-66, 2003. Link: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129065703001443
J. A. F. Costa, M. L. A. Netto (2001). Clustering of complex shaped data sets via Kohonen maps and mathematical morphology. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, v. 4384, p. 16-27, 2001. Link: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=914303
J. A. F. Costa, M. L. A. Netto (1999). Estimating the Number of Clusters in Multivariate Data by Self-Organizing Maps. International Journal of Neural Systems, London, UK, v. 10, n.6, p. 195-202, 1999. Link: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129065799000186

Some book chapters:

Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Jackson G. de Souza (2011). Image Segmentation through Clustering based on Natural Computing Techniques. In: Image Segmentation, Pei-Gee Ho (Ed.), pp. 57-82, ISBN: 978-953-307-228-9, InTech. Austria. Link: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/image-segmentation-through-clustering-based-on-natural-computing-techniques
M. L. Gonçalves, J. A. F. Costa and M. L. A. Netto (2011). Land-Cover Classification Using Self-Organizing Maps Clustered with Spectral and Spatial Information. In: Self Organising Maps, New Achievements, Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-546-4, pp. 299-322, InTech, Vienna, Austria. Link: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/land-cover-classification-using-self-organizing-maps-clustered-with-spectral-and-spatial-information
Flavius L. Gorgônio, José Alfredo F. Costa (2011). Privacy-Preserving Clustering on Distributed Databases: A Review and Some Contributions. In: Self Organizing Maps, New Achievements. Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-546-4, pp. 33-54, InTech, Austria. Link: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/privacy-preserving-clustering-on-distributed-databases-a-review-and-some-contributions
Flavius L. Gorgônio, José Alfredo F. Costa (2010). PartSOM: A Framework for Distributed Data Clustering Using SOM and K-Means. In: Self-Organizing Maps, George K Matsopoulos (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-074-2, pp. 43-62., InTech, Vienna, Austria. Link: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/partsom-a-framework-for-distributed-data-clustering-using-som-and-k-means

Some recent technical activities:

*Activity*	Conference
Program Co-chair.	LA-CCI 2024 - 10th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence – Bogotá, Colombia – 13 ~ 15 November, 2024. URL: https://ieee.org.co/la-cci2024/
Program Committee Member	EPIA 2024 (23th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2024 Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) track. Lisbon, PT. URL: https://epia2024.pt/knowledge-discovery-and-business-intelligence/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2024 – the 16th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, to be held on September 9-11, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Website: https://iccci.pwr.edu.pl/2024/
Program Committee Member	BIGDACI 2024 – 9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence. 13 – 15 July 2024 Budapest, Hungary. URL: https://www.bigdaci.org/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2024 - 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS), Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, from April 15-18, 2024. URL: https://aciids.pwr.edu.pl/2024/
Program Committee Member	ICNC-FSKD 2024 – The 2024 20th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery will be held from 29-31 July 2024 in Guangzhou, China. URL: https://sse.sysu.edu.cn/icnc2024/
Program Committee Member	SNLP 2024 – 5th International Conference on Semantic & Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2024) to be held in April 27 ~ 28, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. URL: https://acsit2024.org/snlp/
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2024 - The 21th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. Valencia, Spain, September 15-18, 2024. Website: www.cdve.org
Program Committee Member/Reviewer	ICICIP 2024 - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP2021) in Nanging, China, March 8-10 2024: URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icicip/
Program Committee Member	NLPAI 2024 – 2nd International Conference on NLP & AI - March 09 ~ 10, 2024, Virtual Conference - https://nlpai2024.org/
Liaison & Publicity Chair / Steering & Program Committee Member	IDEAL 202 3 - 24th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. 22th-24th November 2023, Évora, Portugal. URL: ideal2023.uevora.pt/
Program Committee Member	ICNC-FSKD 2023 – The 2023 19th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery will be held from 29-31 July 2023 in Harbin, China. URL: http://icnc2023.hrbust.edu.cn/index.htm
Program Committee Member	ITCON 2023 – 9th International Conference on Information Technology Converge Services, to be held in December 16 ~ 17, 2023, Dubai, UAE. URL: https://csea2023.org/itcon/index
Program Committee Member	NLP 2023 – 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2023). URL: https://www.csen2023.org/nlp/index
Program Co-Chair / Panelist	CBIC 2023 – XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, Salvador, Bahia, entre 8 a 11 de Outubro de 2023. URL: http://cbic23.ufba.br
Program Committee Member	NLAII 2023 – International Conference on NLP, AI & Information Retrieval, to be held in October 07 ~ 08, 2023, Virtually. URL: https://nlaii2023.org/
Program Committee Member	IAIT 2023 – The 13th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology. Dates: 6th – 9th December 2023, Bangkok, Thailand. URL: https://www.iait-conf.org/2023/
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2023 (The 18th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. Salamanca, Spain, September 5th-7th 2023. URL: http://2023.haisconference.eu/
Program Committee Member	ICIST 2023 – 13th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2023) in Cairo, Egypt during Dec.8-14 2023: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/
Publicity/Public Relations co-Chair	LA-CCI 2023 - 9th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence – Ipojuca, PE, Brazil – Oct 29 – 1st November, 2023. URL: https://netuh.github.io/la-cci-home/index.html
Program Committee Member	NLMLT 2023 – 2nd International Conference on NLP and Machine Learning Trends Conference, which is going to be held on November 11 ~ 12, 2023, Dubai, UAE. URL: https://www.cst2023.org/nlmlt/index
PC member – CLEI 2023 Intelligent Systems track	CLEI 2023 – XLIX Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, La Paz, Bolivia, October 16-20th 2023. PC member of CLEI 2023 Intelligent Systems track. URL: https://umsa-2023.clei.org/
Program Committee Member	MCNA 2023 – The International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications JUNE 19-22, 2023 – Valencia, Spain. URL: https://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2023
Program Committee Member	GridCom 2023 – 15th International Conference on Grid Computing, to be held in Sydney, Australia on December 23 ~ 24, 2023. URL: https://iccsea2023.org/gridcom/index
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2023 - 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems which will be held in Phuket, Thailand, during June 24-26, 2023. URL: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	EPIA 202 3 (22th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2023 Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) track. Lisbon, PT. URL: https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/?page_id=749
Program Committee Member	XII Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação, 16 e 17 de outubro, Recife, PE, Brasil.
Program Committee Member	SAC 2023 – The 2023 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (Data Mining track), to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 27 – April 2, 2023. URL: https://sites.google.com/view/acmsacdm2023/home
Program Committee Member	UBIC 2023 – 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBIC 2023), to be held in Sydney, Australia on December 23 ~ 24, 2023. URL: https://iccsea2023.org/ubic/index
Program Committee Member	ColCACI 2023 – IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence – July 27th – 29th, Bogotá, Colombia. URL: https://2023.ieee-colcaci.org/
Program Committee Member	ICAIE 2023 – International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, to be held in Kobe, Japan, March 20-22, 2023. URL: https://icaie.jimdofree.com/
Program Committee Member	BigDaCI 2023 - 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence 2023, Porto, Portugal 16 – 18 July 2023 – https://bigdaci.org/
Program Committee Member	CAIML 2023 – 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML 2023). July 29 ~ 30, 2023, London, United Kingdom. URL: https://itcse2023.org/caiml/index
Program Committee Member	NLCA 2023 – 4th International Conference on Natural Language Computing Advances (NLCA 2023), to be held in July 29 ~ 30, 2023, London, United Kingdom. URL: https://itcse2023.org/nlca/index
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2023 - The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. Mallorca, Spain on Oct. 1-4, 2023. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Steering Committee Member / Liaison / Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2022 - 23th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. 24th-26th November 2022, Manchester, England. URL: https://ideal-conf.com/ideal2022
Program Committee Member	ICONIP 2022 – 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing. New Delhi, India from November 22 to November 26, 2022: https://www.iconip2022.apnns.org/index.php
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2022 – The 17th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. Salamanca, Spain, September 6th-8th 2022. URL: http://2022.haisconference.eu/
Program Committee Member	ANDESCON 2022 – Track on Computational Intelligence (https://attend.ieee.org/andescon/). ANDESCON – the biannual Technical and Scientific Conference of the Andean Council of the IEEE
Program Committee Member	NLPTT 2022 – 3rd International Conference on NLP Trends & Technologies, to be held in Dubai, UAE, on December 17 ~ 18, 2022. URL: https://cse2022.org/nlptt/index
Program Committee Member	IEEE LA-CCI 2022 – 8th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence. November, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Program Committee Member	ColCACI 2022 – IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence – July 27th – 29th, Cali, Colombia. URL: https://ieee-colcaci.org/2022/
Program Committee Member	ICACI 2022 – The 14th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, to be held in Wuhan, Hubei, China during July 15-17, 2022.
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2022 – the 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, which will be held on September 28-30, 2022 in Hammamet, Tunisia. Website: https://iccci.pwr.edu.pl/2022/
Program Committee Member	KDBI / EPIA 2022 – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) Track – EPIA 2022 – EPIA conference on Artificial Intelligence – Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, PT. Dates: August 31-September 2, 2022. URL: https://epia2022.inesc-id.pt/
Program Committee Member	ICIST2022 – 12th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, in Kaifeng, Henan, China. Oct. 14-16 2022. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/
Program Committee Member	NATL 2022 – 8th International Conference on Natural Language Computing, November 19 ~ 20, 2022, Zurich, Switzerland. URL: https://www.csea2022.org/natl/index
Program Committee Member	NATAP 2022 - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Trends. June 18 ~ 19, 2022, Sydney, Australia. URL: https://csita2022.org/natap/committee
Program Committee Member	NIAI 2022 – 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and AI, Vancouver, Canada on February 26 ~ 27, 2022. URL: https://ccseit2022.org/niai/index
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2022 - 14th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems which will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 28-30, 2022. URL: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2022 - The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. September 25-28, 2022, Krakow, Poland. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member	ACM SAC 2022, DM – Data Mining track. SAC 2022 conference will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, on April 25 – April 29, 2022. URL: http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/
Program Committee Member	ICONIP 2021 – The 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing – December 8 – 12, 2021, BALI, Indonesia. https://iconip2021.apnns.org/
Program Committee Member	DMBD 2021 – The Sixth International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data. Dates: October 12-14, 2021. Location: Guangzhou, China. URL: http://www.iasei.org/dmbd2021/
Steering Committee Member / Liaison / Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2021 - 22th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. 25th-27th November 2021, Manchester, England. URL: https://ideal-conf.com/ideal2021
Program Committee	IEEE LA-CCI 2021 – 7th Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, Temuco-Chile, November 2-4th of 2021. URL: http://la-cci.org/
Program Committee Member	NLDM 2021 - International Conference on NLP & Data Mining. Vienna, Austria, on October 29 ~ 30, 2021. URL: https://comit2021.org/nldm/index
Program Committee Member	CBSF 2020 – Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas Fuzzy, 03 a 05 de novembro de 2021, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil. URL: https://sites.google.com/unesp.br/vicbsf/
Program Committee Member	NLPTT 2021 – 2nd International Conference on NLP Trends & Technologies, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on December 24 ~ 25, 2021. URL: https://cse2021.org/nlptt/index
Program Committee Member	ICICIP 2021 – 11th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP2021) in Dali, Yunnan, China during Dec. 3-7 2021: URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icicip/
Program Committee Member	KDMiLe 2021 – 9th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning (KDMiLe). Dates: October 4th to October 8th in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD). Rio de Janeiro, RJ (CEFET-RJ). URL: https://eic.cefet-rj.br/kdmile2021/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2021 – The 13th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, which will be held on Sep 29-Oct 01, 2021 in Rhodes, Greece: https://iccci.pwr.edu.pl/2021/
Program Committee Member	NLTM 2021 – International Conference on NLP & Text Mining, to be held in Dubai, UAE on August 28 ~ 29, 2021. URL: https://nltm2021.org/index
Revisor / Avaliador	II Congresso Internacional de Direito e Inteligência Artificial, 26 a 29 de maio de 2021. Evento online. Tema do evento: um olhar do direito sobre a tecnologia. URL: www.conpedi.org.br
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2021 – 16th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2021). URL: http://2021.haisconference.eu/
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2021 - 16th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, 22-24 September 2021, Bilbao (Spain). URL: http://2021.sococonference.eu/
Program Committee Member	EPIA 2021 - 21th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2020 Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) track. Lisbon, PT. URL: http://www.appia.pt/epia2021/knowledge-discovery-and-business-intelligence-kdbi/
Program Committee Member	NATL 2021 – 7h International Conference on Natural Language Computing, to be held in November 27 ~ 28, 2021, London, United Kingdom. URL: https://csea2021.org/natl/index
Program Committee Member	ICACI 2021 - The 13th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence). May. 14 – 16, 2021, Wanzhou, China. URL: https://www.aconf.org/conf_177303.html
Program Committee Member	ICICS 2021 – The Twelfth International Conference on Information and Communication Systems. Valencia, Spain, May 24-26, 2021. URL: https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html
Program Committee Member	CBIC 2021 – XV Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, Santa Catarina, Brazil, from 4th to 6th October 2021. URL: https://www.cbic21.org/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2021 – 13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, to be in Phuket in Thailand during April 7-10, 2021. URL: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2021 - The 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. Oct. 24-27, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member / reviewer	NATAP 2021 – 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Trends (NATAP 2021) to be held in May 22 ~ 23, 2021, Zurich, Switzerland. URL: https://csita2021.org/natap/index
Steering Committee Member / Liaison / Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2020 – 21th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. 4th-6th November 2020, Guimarães, Portugal. URL: http://islab.di.uminho.pt/ideal2020/
Program Committee Member	ICONIP 2020 – The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing – November 18 – 22, 2020 (Online). https://www.apnns.org/ICONIP2020/.
Program Committee Member	KDMiLe 2020 – 8th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning (KDMiLe), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil) and will be held from 20 to 23 October in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS). URL: http://bracis2020.c3.furg.br/kdmile.html
Program Committee Member	NLPI 2020 – International Conference on NLP & Information Retrieval (NLPI 2020). August 22~23, 2020, Chennai, India. URL: https://www.cseij.org/nlpi/index.html
Program Committee Member	IEEE ColCACI 2020: IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence – 2020. Colombia, August 7th and 8th, 2020. URL: http://ieee-colcaci.org/2020
Program Committee Member	NLP 2020 – 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2020). November 21~22, 2020, Zurich, Switzerland. URL: https://cst2020.org/nlp/index.html
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2020 - The 17th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. Oct. 25-28, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2020 – 12th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. 30 November – 3 December 2020, Da Nang, Vietnam. URL: https://iccci.pwr.edu.pl/2020/
Technical program committee	MCNA 2020 – The Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications. October 19th – 22nd, 2020 – VALENCIA, SPAIN. URL: http://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2020/
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2020 – 15th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2020), Gijón (Asturias), Spain. URL: http://2020.haisconference.eu
Program Committee Member	ICIST 2020 – 10th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2020) in England during late August. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2020 – 12th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, to be held on 27-29 July 2020 in Da Nang, Vietnam: http://www.iccci.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	EPIA 2020 (21th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2020 Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) track. Lisbon, PT. URL: https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2020 - 15th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications), which will be held in Burgos, Spain, from June 24th to 26th 2020. URL: http://2020.sococonference.eu/
Program Committee Member	DMBD’2020 – The Fifth International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD’2020) will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from July 14-20, 2020. URL: http://dmbd2020.ic-si.org
Program Committee Member	ICCS 2020 – International Conference on Computational Science 2020 (Track: Classifier Learning from Difficult Data). Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 3-5, 2020. URL: https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2020/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2020 – 12th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems which will be held in Phuket in Thailand during 23-26 March 2020: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Review Committee Member	The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing 2020, Data Mining Track. SAC 2020 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, on March 30-April 3, 2020.
Steering Committee Member / Liaison / Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2019 - 20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. The University of Manchester, UK. 14 – 16 November 2019. URL: http://www.confercare.manchester.ac.uk/events/ideal2019/
Programme Co-Chair	LA-CCI 2019 – 6th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence – Guayaquil, Ecuador – November 11-15th, 2019. URL: http://la-cci.org/
Program Committee Member	CBIC 2019 – XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, to be held in the City of Belém – Pará, Brazil. November 3-6, 2019. URL: http://cbic2019.wixsite.com/cbic
Program Committee Member	ICICIP 2019 – The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, to be held in Marrakesh, Morocco during mid-December. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icicip/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2019 – 11th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2019), to be held on 4th-6th September 2019 in Auditorium Antoine D'Abbadie, Hendaye, France: http://iccci.sigappfr.org/
Editor Associado	SBAI 2019 – 14º Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Ouro Preto – MG, outubro de 2019. URL: https://www.sbai2019.com.br/
Scientific Committee Member	CONTECSI 2019 - 16th International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, May 29th – 31th, 2019, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.contecsi.fea.usp.br/
Program Committee Member	KDMiLe 2019 – 7th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning (KDMiLe), to be held in Fortaleza, Ceará, on October 07th to 10th (in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium on Databases, SBBD 2019).
Program Committee Member	ICA3PP 2019 – The 19th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, to be held on December 9-11, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://nsclab.org/ica3pp2019/
Program Committee Member	ICCS 2019 – International Conference on Computational Science, University of Algarve Faro, Algarve, Portugal, June 12-14, 2019. URL: https://www.iccs-meeting.org
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2019 – 14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications), which will be held in Seville, Spain, from 13th to 15th May 2019.
Program Committee Member	ISNN 2019 – 16th International Symposium on Neural Networks, to be held in Moscow, Russia on July 10-12, 2019. Located by the Moskva River, Moscow. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/isnn/
Steering Committee & Program Committee Member	COGNITIVE 2019 – The Eleventh International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, to be held on May 5 to 9th, 2019 – Venice, Italy, under the ComputationWorld 2019 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/COGNITIVE19.html
Scientific Committee	ICMA 2019 – International Conference On Mathematical Applications (8-11 July 2019, Ponta Delgada, Azores; Portugal). URL: http://iknowd.org/icma19/home
Program Committee Member	ACM SAC 2019 – The 34th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing in 2019, to be held in Limassol, Cyprus, on April 8-12, 2019 (Data Mining Track).
Program Committee Member	DMBD 2019 – The Fourth International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, July 26th – 30th, Chiang Mai, Thailand. URL: http://dmbd2019.ic-si.org/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2019 – 10th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2019), to be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia during 8-11 April 2019: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2019 - The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Mallorca, Spain, October 6-9, 2019. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Technical Program Committee	ICICS 2019 – 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, “Health Informatics” track. June 11-13, 2019 – Irbid -Jordan. URL: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2019/
Program Committee Member	ADAPTIVE 2019 – The Eleventh International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications, to be held on May 5 to 9th, 2019 – Venice, Italy, under the ComputationWorld 2019 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ADAPTIVE19.html
Program Committee Member	CONTENT 2019 – The Eleventh International Conference on Creative Content Technologies, to be held on May 5 to 9th, 2019 – Venice, Italy, under the ComputationWorld 2019 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/CONTENT19.html
Publicity Chair / Steering Committee Member/ Liaison / Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2018 – 19th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, to be held in Madrid, 21-23 Nov. 2018. URL: http://aida.ii.uam.es/ideal2018/
Coordenador científico	IX TELECON – 9º CONGRESSO DE DIREITO DA INFORMÁTICA E TELECOMUNICAÇÕES, que ocorrera ocorrerá no Auditório da OAB/RN, Natal, RN, entre 29 e 30 de novembro de 2018.
Program Committee Member	INTETAIN 2018 – 10th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. November 21-23, 2018, Guimarães, Portugal. URL: http://intetain.org/
Program Committee Member	IEEE ISPA 2018 – The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. URL: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/
Steering Committee & Program Committee Member	COGNITIVE 2018 – The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, to be held on February 18 – 22, 2018 – Barcelona, Spain, under the ComputationWorld 2018 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/COGNITIVE18.html
Program Committee Member	KDMiLe 2018 – 6th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning, to be held in São Paulo (SP) from October 22nd to 25th in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS). URL: https://bracis2018.mybluemix.net/KDMILE.html.
Technical Program Committee	ICA3PP 2018 - 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, to be held in Guangzhou, China on Nov 15-17.
Program Committee Member	ICONIP 2018 – The 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2018) will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia during December 14 – 16, 2018. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/iconip/
Program Committee Member	ICNC-FSKD 2018 – The 2018 14th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, to be held from 28-30 July 2018 in Huangshan, China. URL: http://icnc-fskd2018.org/
Program Committee Member	AICCSA 2018 – 15th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (Database and Information Security track). October 28th to November 1st, 2018. URL: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2018 – 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, to be held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK during September 5-7, 2018. URL: http://www.iccci2018.org/
Program Committee Member	DMBD 2018 – The Third International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data(DMBD’2018), to be held in Shanghai, China, from June 17 – 22, 2018. URL: http://dmbd2018.ic-si.org
Scientific Committee	ICMA 2018 – International Conference On Mathematical Applications. 9-12 July 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. URL: http://iknowd.org/icma/home
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2018 – The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 21-24, 2018. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2018 – 13th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, to be held on 6-8th June, San Sebastian (Spain). URL: http://soco2018.eu
Program Committee Member	ICIST 2018 – 8th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2018), to be held in Cordoba, Granada, and Seville, Spain during June 30-July 6. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2018 – The 13th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. June 20-22th, Oviedo, Spain. URL: http://hais2018.uniovi.es
Program Committee Member	IEEE ColCACI 2018: IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence – 2018 Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, May 16-18, 2018. URL: http://ieee-colcaci.org/
Member – Scientific Committee	CBSF 2018 – V Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas Fuzzy, from 4-6th July, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. URL: https://cbsf2018.wordpress.com/
Scientific Committee Member	CONTECSI 2018 - 14th International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, May 23th – 25th, 2018, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.contecsi.fea.usp.br/
Program Committee Member	ICIC 2018 – The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC: http://ic-ic.tongji.edu.cn/) will be organized on August 15-18, 2018, in Wuhan, China. URL: http://ic-ic.tongji.edu.cn/
Program Committee Member	ICICS 2018 – 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, track: “Digital Living including E-Learning, E-Governement and E-Health”. April 3-5, Irbid, Jordan. URL: http://www.just.edu.jo/icics2018/
Program Committee Member	ISNN 2018 – 15th International Symposium on Neural Networks, to be held in Minsk, Belarus on June 25-28, 2018. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/isnn/
Program Committee Member	ACM SAC 2018 – The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing. Pau, France, April 9 – 13, 2018. URL: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/
Program Committee Member	ICACI 2018 – 10th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), to be held in Xiamen, China during March 29-31, 2018. URL: http://www.icaci2018.org/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2018 – 10th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 19-21 March 2018 in Dong Hoi, Vietnam.
Program Committee Member	ADAPTIVE 2018 – The Tenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications, to be held on February 18 – 22, 2018 – Barcelona, Spain, under the ComputationWorld 2018 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ADAPTIVE18.html
Program Committee Member	CONTENT 2018 – The Tenth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies, to be held on February 18 – 22, 2018 – Barcelona, Spain, under the ComputationWorld 2018 umbrella. Link: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CONTENT18.html
Program Committee Member	IEEE ISPA 2017 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications. Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017. URL: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/
Program Committee Member	IWCSN 2017 – 14th International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (IWCSN2017), to be held in Doha, Qatar during December 8-10, 2017. URL: http://www.iwcsn2017.org/
Program Committee Member	CBIC 2017 – XIII Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence, which will take place at the Institute of Computing of the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 30 October to 1 November 2017. URL: http://cbic2017.org/
Publicity Chair, Steering Commitee Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2017 – The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, to be held on Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, GuiLin, China. Link: http://ideal2017.guet.edu.cn/ideal/
Membro do Comitê Científico	SBTI 2017 (V Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação). Jaboatão do Guararapes, PE, Outubro de 2017. URL: https://www.faculdadeguararapes.edu.br/sbti2017/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2017 – 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 27-29, 2017. URL: http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/
Program Committee Member	ICNC-FSKD 2017 – 13th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, to be held from 29-31 July 2017 in Guilin, China. URL: http://icnc-fskd.guet.cn.
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2017 – 12th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, Leon, Spain, 6th-8th September 2017. URL: http://soco.unileon.es/
Program Committee Member	LA-CCI 2017 – IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence 2017. Arequipa-Peru, 6th – 10th November. URL: http://la-cci.org/
Program Committee Member	KDMiLe 2017 – 5th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning, to be held in Uberlândia (Minas Gerais – Brazil) from October 2nd to 4th, 2017.
Program Committee Member	CORES 2017 – 10th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems (CORES), which will be held in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland, in May of 2017.
Program Committee Member	SAC 2017 – ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, *Data Mining Track*. April 3 – 7, 2017, Marrakech, Morocco. URL: http://dbx.cse.unsw.edu.au/sacdm/sacdm2017.html
Program Committee Member	ICA3PP 2017 – 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. Helsinki, Finland, 21-23 August, 2017. URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/index.html
Program Committee Member	DMBD 2017 – The Second International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, from July 27 to August 01, 2017. URL: http://dmbd2017.ic-si.org
Program Committee Member	ICIC 2017 – The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Computing. To be held on August 7-10, 2017, in Liverpool, UK. URL: http://ic-ic.tongji.edu.cn/
Program Committee Member	ICSI 2017 – The Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2017), to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, from July 27 to August 01, 2017. URL: http://www.ic-si.org
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2017 - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Mallorca, Spain, September 17-20, 2017. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2017 - The 12th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. June 21st-23rd, 2017, Logroño (La Rioja), Spain. URL: http://hais2017.unirioja.es
Program Committee Member	EPIA 2017 (18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI) 2017 track. Porto, PT, Sep 5-8, 2017. URL: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/kdbi/
Scientific Committee Member	CONTECSI 2017 – 14th International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, May 24th – 26th, 2017, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.contecsi.fea.usp.br/
Program Committee Member	ICIST 2017 – 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology, to be held in Da Nang, Vietnam during April 16-19, 2017. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/
Program Committee Member	CONTENT 2017: The Ninth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies, February 19 – 23, 2017 – Athens, Greece, under the ComputationWorld 2017 umbrella. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/CONTENT17.html
Program Committee Member	ICAT2E 2017 – The 2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies Enhancing Education, to be held on March 18-20, 2017 in Qingdao, China. URL: http://icat2e.jimdo.com
Program Committee Member	ADAPTIVE 2017: The Ninth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications, February 19 – 23, 2017 – Athens, Greece, under the ComputationWorld 2017 umbrella. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ADAPTIVE17.html
Steering Committee & Program Committee Member	COGNITIVE 2017: The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, February 19 – 23, 2017 – Athens, Greece, under the ComputationWorld 2017 umbrella. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/COGNITIVE17.html
Program Committee Member	ICACI 2017 – The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, to be held on February 4-6, 2017. Venue: Doha, Qatar. URL: http://www.icaci2017.org/
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2017 – 9th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, to be held in Kanazawa, Japan, to be held 3 – 5 April 2017. URL: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	ICAT2E 2017 (The 2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies Enhancing Education), which will be held on March 18-20, 2017 in Qingdao, China. URL: http://icat2e.jimdo.com/
Membro do Comitê Científico	SBTI 2016 (V Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação). João Pessoa, PB, de 5 a 7 e outubro de 2016. URL: http://www.ufpb.br/idep/sbti2016
Program Committee Member	AICCSA 2016 (The 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications). November 29th to December 2nd, 2016, Agadir, Morocco. Track: Digital Living including E-Learning, E-Government, E-Health. URL: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2016/
Program Committee Member	WVC 2016 – XII Workshop de Visão Computacional. November 9th -11th 2016. Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. URL: http://www.gpec.ucdb.br/wvc2016/
Publicity Chair / Steering Committee Member/ Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2016 – The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. To be held in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China on October 12-14. URL: http://ideal2016.yzu.edu.cn/
Program Committee Member	ICONIP 2016 - The 23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing is to be held in Kyoto, a beautiful ancient capital city of Japan, from October 16 to 21, 2016.
Program Committee Member	KDMILE 2016 – 4rd SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY, MINING AND LEARNING. KDMiLe 2016 will be held in Recife (Pernambuco – Brazil) from October 13th to 15th, 2016, together with the The Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) and Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional (ENIAC). URL: http://cin.ufpe.br/~bracis2016/
Program Committee Member	ICNC-FSKD 2016 – 12th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, to be held from 13-15 August 2016 in Changsha, China. URL: http://icnc-fskd.hnu.edu.cn
Program Committee Member	CIDM 2016 – 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining December 6-9, 2016, Athens, Greece. URL: http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/CIDM2016/
Program Committee Member	ICICIP 2016 – The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, during December 1-4, 2016. URL: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icicip/
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2016 - 11th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, San Sebastian, SPAIN. 19th – 21st October, 2016. http://www.ehu.eus/ccwintco/soco2016/
Program Committee Member	MOSIS 2016 – 46th Autumn International Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Systems. September 12-14, 2016, Praha, Czech Rep. URL: http://mosis.vsb.cz/
Program Committee Member	ENIC 2016 – The Third European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC 2016). September 5-7, 2016, Wrocław, Poland. http://enic.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	ISNN 2016 – 13th International Symposium on Neural Networks. July 6-8, 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia. URL: http://isnn.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/
Technical Program Committee	NLP'16 – Fifth International Symposium on Natural Language Processing. September 21-24, 2016, Jaipur, India. URL: http://icacci-conference.org/2016/nlp2016
Scientific Committee Member	IV CBSF – Quarto Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas Fuzzy. De 16 a 18 de Novembro de 2016, Campinas, SP, Brasil. http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~cbsf4
Program Committee Member	DMBD 2016 – International Conference of Data Mining and Big Data. Theme: Serving our life with Data Science. URL: http://dmbd2016.ic-si.org/. Dates: 25-30 June, 2016. Location: Bali, Indonesia.
Program Committee Member	NMRPC2 2016 – Nonstationary Models of Pattern Recognition and Classifier Combinations. Part of ICCS 2016 (The International Conference on Computational Science), San Diego, California, USA, 6-8 June, 2016. URL: http://www.kssk.pwr.edu.pl/nmrpc2
Program Committee Member	ICA3PP 2016 – The 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. December 14-16, 2016, Granada, Spain. URL: http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/wp/ica3pp2016/
Program Committee Member	CDVE 2016 - The 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Oct. 17-20, 2016. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Program Committee Member	ICCCI 2016 – 8th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, from 28th – 30th September 2016, in Halkidiki, Greece. http://conferences.cwa.gr/iccci2016/
Program Committee Member	ICIST 2016 – The Sixth International Conference on Information Science and Technology, to be in Dalian during May 6-8, 2016. URL: http://icist.dlut.edu.cn/meeting/index_en.asp?id=2578
Program Committee Member	ICACI 2016 – the Eighth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence. Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 14-16, 2016. http://icaci.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/
Program Committee Member	ICSI 2016 – The Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, to be held in Bali, Indonesia, from June 25 to 30, 2016.http://www.ic-si.org/
Program Committee Member	CONTENT 2016 - The Eighth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies. March 20 – 24, 2016 – Rome, Italy. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CONTENT16.html
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2016 – 11th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, to be held in Seville, Spain, in 18th-20th April of 2016. http://hais2016.upo.es/
Program Committee Member	WCICA 2016 - 12th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, June 12-17, 2016, Guilin, China. http://www.wcica2016.org
Program Committee Member	INTERNET 2016 – The Eighth International Conference on Evolving Internet. November 13 – 17, 2016 – Barcelona, Spain. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/INTERNET16.html
Program Committee Member	ACM SAC 2016 - The 31th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing. Salamanca, Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/. Track: Data Mining
Program Committee Member	ACIIDS 2016 – 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems. 14-16 March 2016, Da Nang, Vietnam. URL: http://www.aciids.pwr.edu.pl/
ADAPTIVE 2016 Advisory Chair, Program Committee Member	ADAPTIVE 2016 – The Eighth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications. March 20 – 24, 2016 – Rome, Italy. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComADAPTIVE16.html
Scientific Committee Member	13th CONTECSI 2016 - International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, June 1st – 3th, 2016, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.tecsi.fea.usp.br/eventos/contecsi/
COGNITIVE 2016 Advisory Chair	COGNITIVE 2016 – The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. March 20 – 24, 2016 – Rome, Italy. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComCOGNITIVE16.html
Program Committee Member	EBICC 2015 – INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE. December 7 – 11, 2015. Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.lsi.usp.br/ebicc-2015/
Program Committee Member	MMAML 2015 – Special Session on Multiple Model Approach to Machine Learning at The 7th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2015), Bali, Indonesia, on 23-25 March, 2015 http://aciids.org/index.php
Program Committee Member	ACM SAC 2015 – The 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing. Salamanca, Spain, April 13 – 17, 2015. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/. Track: Data Mining
ADAPTIVE 2015 Advisory Chairs / Technical Program Committee	ADAPTIVE 2015 – The Seventh International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications. March 22 – 27, 2015 – Nice, France. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ADAPTIVE15.html
Program Committee	CBIC 2015 – 12o. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional. Curitiba, PR, 13 e 16 de outubro de 2015. URL: http://la-cci.org/
Program Committee	CDVE 2015 - The 12th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. To be held on Sept. 20 – Sept. 23, 2015, Mallorca, Spain. URL: http://www.cdve.org/
Membro do Comitê Científico	DINCON 2015 – Conferência Brasileira de Dinâmica, Controle e Aplicações. Natal, RN, de 25 a 28 de outubro de 2015. URL: http://dincon2015.swge.inf.br/
Program Committee Member	EPIA 2015 - 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Track: Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence. URL: http://epia2015.dei.uc.pt/kdbi/
Program Committee Member	HAIS 2015 – 10th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, Bilbao, Spain, 22nd-24th June of 2015. URL: http://hais2015.deusto.es/
Tutorial / Symposia Sessions Chairs	ICSI-CCI’2015 - The Sixth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and the Second BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence, Beijing, China, from June 26 to 29, 2015. URL:http://www.ic-si.org/
Publicity Chair, Steering Commitee Program Committee Member	IDEAL 2015 – The 16th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. October 14-16, 2015, Wroclaw, Poland. URL: http://ideal2015.pwr.edu.pl/
Program Committee Member	IJCNN 2015 – International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), Killarney, Ireland. July 11 – 16th. URL: http://www.ijcnn.org/
Technical Program Committee	INTERNET 2015 – The Seventh International Conference on Evolving Internet. October 11 – 16, 2015 – St. Julians, Malta. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/INTERNET15.html
Program Committee Member	KDMILE 2015 – 3rd SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY, MINING AND LEARNING. Itaipava – Petrópolis (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil) from 14 to 15 October 2015. URL: www.ic.uff.br/~kdmile
Program Committee Member	NLP'15 - Fourth International Symposium on Natural Language Processing. Co-Affiliated with Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2015). August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India. http://icacci-conference.org/web/nlp-home
Membro do Comitê Técnico	SBAI 2015 – XII Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, 25 a 28 de outubro de 2015. Natal, RN, Brasil. URL: http://sbai2015.dca.ufrn.br/
Program Committee Member	SOCO 2015 – 10th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, BURGOS, SPAIN. 15th-17th June, 2015. http://soco.usal.es
Scientific Committee Member	WVC 2015 – XI Workshop de Visão Computacional. October 05th – 07th 2015 – São Carlos (SP) – Brazil. URL: http://wvc2015.eesc.usp.br/index.html
Scientific Committee Member	12th CONTECSI - International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, May 20 – 22, 2015, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.tecsi.fea.usp.br/eventos/contecsi/
Program Committee Member	The 6th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2014) which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 7-9, 2014: http://www.ic.kmitl.ac.th/aciids2014/. http://www.ic.kmitl.ac.th/aciids2014/ProgramCommittee.html
Program Committee Member	IJCNN 2014 (part of 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). July 6–11, 2014, Beijing, China. URL http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org
Advisory Chair & Program Committee	ADAPTIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications. May 25 – 29, 2014 – Venice, Italy, under ComputationWorld 2014 umbrella; http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ADAPTIVE14.html
Advisory Chair & Program Committee	COGNITIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. May 25 – 29, 2014 – Venice, Italy, under ComputationWorld 2014 umbrella; http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COGNITIVE14.html
Program Committee	INTERNET 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Evolving Internet. June 22 – 26, 2014 – Seville, Spain, under InfoWare 2014 umbrella; URL http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/INTERNET14.html
Scientific Committee	11th CONTECSI – International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, May 28 – 30, 2014, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.tecsi.fea.usp.br/eventos/contecsi/
Publicity Chair, Program Committee Member and reviewer (Tech. Committee)	IJCNN 2014 (part of 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). July 6–11, 2014, Beijing, China. URL: http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org
Publicity Chair & Steering Committee member	14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2013). 20 – 23 October, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China. URL: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/index.html
Publicity Chair	The Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI’2013) will be held in Harbin, China from June 12 to 15, 2013. URL: http://www.ic-si.org/
Publicity Chair / Social Agenda Coordinator / Advisory Committee Member	1st BRICS Countries & 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence. 8th – 11th September, Recife, PE, Brazil. URL:http://brics-cci.org/
Program Committee	CDVE 2013 – 10th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, to be held in Mallorca, Spain, during Sept. 22-25th, 2013. URL: http://www.cdve.org.
Program Committee	2013 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2013) to be held during July 28-31, 2013, in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. URL:http://www.ic-ic.org/2013/
Program Committee	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM-2013), part of the IEEE SSCI conference series, which will take place on 15.-19.April.2013 in Singapore
Program Committee	ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. March 18-23, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal. URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2013/ - Data Mining Track - http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/sacdm/sac-dm-2013.htm
Program Committee	IX Workshop de Visão Computacional (WVC 2013). Niteroi, RJ, June 03-05, 2013. website: http://www.ic.uff.br/~wvc2013/
Advisory Chair & Program Committee	ADAPTIVE 2013 – The Fifth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications. May 27 – June 1, 2013 – Valencia, Spain. URL:http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ADAPTIVE13.html
Advisory Chair	COGNITIVE 2013 – The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. May 27 – June 1, 2013 – Valencia, Spain. URL:http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComCOGNITIVE13.html
Program Committee	SOCO 2013 – 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications. SALAMANCA, SPAIN, 11th-13th September of 2013. URL: http://soco13.usal.es
Program Committee	MMAML 2013 (Multiple Model Approach to Machine Learning) at the 5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2013). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 18-20, 2013. Conference web site: http://seminar.spaceutm.edu.my/aciids2013/ MMAML 2013 web site: http://kms.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/events/mmaml2013/
Program Committee	KDBI 2013 – Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence – Track of EPIA 2013, Açores, Portugal, September, 9-13, 2013. URL: http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/
Scientific Committee	10th CONTECSI – International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, June 12 – 14, 2013, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.tecsi.fea.usp.br/eventos/contecsi/
General Chair	13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2012), to be held on 29-31 August 2012, Natal, Brazil.
PC member and Track Chair (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)	Iberamia 2012 - http://iberamia2012.dsic.upv.es/), to be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, November 13-16,2012.
Technical Committee Co-Chairs	ICSI’2012 – The 3rd International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI’2012) (http://www.ic-si.org) will be held in Shenzhen, China from June 17-20, 2012.
	CDVE 2012 – 9th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, to be held in Osaka, Japan during Sept. 2-5, 2012 at the Osaka University.
Program Committee	2012 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) which will be held in Beijing, China during April 11-14, 2012.
Program Committee	Special Session on Multiple Model Approach to Machine Learning – third MMAML 2012 at the 4th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2012) which will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on March 19-21, 2012 (http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~aciids12/).
Program Committee	Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), on July 25–28, 2012 in Huangshan, China. Website: http://www.ic-ic.org/2012/.
Program Committee	2012 ACM SAC data mining track to be held in Trento, Italy, March 25-29, 2012. URL:http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/; Data mining track URL: http://integra.cs.wayne.edu/sac2012/
Program Committee	2012 ACM SAC data mining track to be held in Trento, Italy, March 25-29, 2012. URL:http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/; Data mining track URL: http://integra.cs.wayne.edu/sac2012/
Program Co-Chair	12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2011), to be held on 5-7 September 2011, Norwich, UK. (Deadline: Apr 30th, 2011)
Program Chair	CBIC'2011 - Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, 8-11 de Novembro, Fortaleza / CE.

Coordenador da sessão ST21: Fundamentos de Inteligência Computacional, dia 6/10/21, 9 às 11 h, no XV CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE INTELIGÊNCIA COMPUTACIONAL (Joinville, SC, 3 a 6 de outubro de 2021), evento oficial da SBIC – Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional. URL: https://sbic.org.br/eventos/cbic_2021/#st21

Atualmente é coordenador do PEP - Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção (Fevereiro de 2019 – atual). Atuou como vice-coordenador do PEP/UFRN no período (Janeiro de 2015 a janeiro de 2019). Foi Chefe do Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica (2004-2006). Atuou como representante docente no CONSEC/CT entre 2007-2009 e 2010-2014.

Atuou entre 2009 e 2013 como presidente da SBIC – Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional (antiga SBRN – Sociedade Brasileira de Redes Neurais). Atuou como membro do conselho superior da SBIC entre 2013 e 2017. Coordena o Laboratório de Sistemas Adaptativos na UFRN. É membro do IEEE – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering e da IEEE CIS – Computacional Intelligence Society.

Leciona, atualmente, disciplinas na Pós-graduação incluindo Gestão Estratégica Organizacional. Leciona na graduação disciplinas como Sistemas Digitais, Processamento Digital de Imagens e Inteligência Artificial. Orientou oito teses de doutorado e mais de trinta dissertações de mestrado, além de mais de uma centena de trabalhos de graduação, estágio e iniciação científica. Uma lista de artigos publicada na área de computação pode ser vista neste link. Alguns artigos publicados na plataforma IEEE Xplore podem ser vistos neste link.

Co-autor do livro "Uma introdução a mineração de dados: conceitos e aplicações", Ed. UFERSA (2014), publicou vários capítulos de livros e artigos completos em periódicos e anais de eventos nacionais e internacionais. Clique aqui para outras informações e atividades. Link para Lattes: lattes.cnpq.br/9745845064013172. Link para página da UFRN (sigaa): docente.ufrn.br/alfredo