• Editor - Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining, Springer-Verlag, Sep. 2006.
• Editor - Stigmergic Optimization, Springer-Verlag, June 2006.

• Advisory Board of Polimetrica (polimetrica.com), Italy.
• Natural Computing Journal, 2008.
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Journal, 2008.
• SMCb – IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Journal (B), 2007.
• SMCc – IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Journal (C), 2007.
• KES Journal - Innovation in Knowledge-based & Intelligent Eng. Systems, 2007.
• Int. Journal of Intelligent Systems, "Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization" special issue, 2007.
• Soft Computing Journal, 2007.
• Neuro Computing Journal, 2006.
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Journal, 2005-06.
• IEE – IEE Vision, Image and Signal Processing Journal, 2005.
• TKDE – IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering Journal, 2004.
• EJOR Eur. Journal of Operational Research - Appl. of Metaheuristics, 2004.
• NEURAL NETWORKS Journal, New Dev. in Self-Organizing Systems, 2004.
• SMCb – IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Journal (B), 2004.
• Evaluation Committee for the Multimedia Portuguese Awards, 2nd Edition, NUMERO Arts and Media Festival, 2005.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES & REVISION WORK:

2008

• Int. Program Committee member at CEC 08 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
• Int. Program Committee member at NICSO 08 - International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 12-14 Nov. 2008. DEAD = Sept. 1, 2008.
• Int. Program Committee member at CIMA 08 -  1st International Workshop on Combining Intelligent Methods and Applications (held at ECAI 08 - 18th European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence),  Patras, Greece, July 21-25, 2008. DEAD = March 9, 2008.
• Int. Program Committee member at CIARP 08 - 13th IberoAmerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Havana, Cuba, 9-12 Sept. 2008. DEAD = March 31, 2008.
• Int. Program Committee member at 1st ICC Workshop on Complexity in Social Systems, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-12 Jan. 2008.
• Int. Program Committee member at ICIAR 08 - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008.

2007

• IPC member at ECAL 07 - European Congress on Artificial Life, Lisbon, Portugal,  Sep. 10-14, 2007.
• IPC member at CEC 07 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, Sep. 25-28, 2007.
• IPC member at NICSO 07 - Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Sicily, Nov. 8-10,  2007.
• IPC member at MA4CS 07 -  Cognition in Multi-Agents Systems, Multi-Agents systems for  Complex Systems, ECCS 07 - Eur. Conf. on Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Oct. 1-6 2007, 
• IPC member at ALEA 07 - 3rd Portuguese Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (part of EPIA 07 - 13th Port. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence), Guimarães, Portugal, Dec. 2007.
• IPC at ICTAI 2007 – 19th Int. Conf. on tools with Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, October 2007.
• IPC member at ICTIS 07 - Infor. and Comm. Tech. Int. Symp., Fez, Morocco, April.
• IPC member at IV 2007 - 11th International Conf. on Information Visualisation, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.

2006

• IPC member at ALIFE X - Int. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 3-7 2006.
• IPC member at PPSN - 9th International Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 Sept. 2006.
• IPC for the Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), "Nature Inspired Smart Information Systems - NISIS", Granada, Spain, June 29-30, 2006.
• Chair at SIP 2006 – Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, to be held within ISDA 2006, Jinan, China, October 16-18, 2006.
• IPC member at CEC - 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21 2006.
• IPC member at IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Special session on Swarm Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Dynamic Environments, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, May 12-14, 2006.
• IPC member at Int. Symp. on Exploration vs. Exploitation in Naturally Inspired Search / part of AISB - 2006 Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems Conf., Bristol, UK, April 3-4 2006.

2005

• IPC at MA4CS 2005 - Multi-Agents for Modeling Complex Systems, Workshop at Complex Systems 05, Paris, France, Nov. 14-18 2005.
• Int. Advisor at BIC 2005 - 1st Int. Symposium on Bio-Inspired Computing - Artificial Immune Systems and ImmunoInformatics, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia, Sept. 5-7 2005.
• “Swarm Intelligence” Theme Chair at WCLC 2005 - 2nd World Congress on Lateral Computing, Bangalore, India, Dec. 16-18 2004.
• IPC at NCA 2005 - Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications, Timisoara, Romania, Sept. 25-29 2005.
• IPC at ACVIS 2005 - Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Antwerp, Belgium, Sept. 20-23 2005.
• IPC at Evolutionary Clustering, Special Session at CEC 2005, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 2-5 2005.
• Chair at SIP 2005 – Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, to be held within WSTST 2005, Muroran, Japan, May 25-27, 2005.
• IPC member at WSC 2005 - 10th Online World Conf. on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, 19 Sept. - 7 Oct., 2005.
• Publicity Chair at WSTST 2005 – 4th Int. Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, Muroran, Japan, May 25-27, 2005.
• IPC member at ICANNGA 2005 – Int. Conf. on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Coimbra, Portugal, March 21-23, 2005.
• IPC member at SAC 2005 – 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
• IPC member at IV 2005 - 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK, July 5-7, 2005.
• IPC member at CGIV-DART 2005 - Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Vision, Beijing, China, 26-29 July 2005.
• Local Organising Committee member at IbPRIA 2005 – 2nd Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, 2005.

2004

• "Swarm Intelligence” Theme Chair at WCLC 2004 - 1st World Congress on Lateral Computing, Bangalore, India, Dec. 17-19 2004.
• Publicity Chair at HIS 2004 - 4th Int. Conf. on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Kitakyushu, Japan, Dec. 5-8 2004.
• Chair at SIP 2004 – Swarm Intelligence and Patterns, to be held within ISDA 2004, Budapest, Hungary, August 26-28, 2004.
• IPC member at PPSN 2004 - VIII Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Birmigham, UK, Sept. 18-22, 2004.
• IPC member at ESOA 2004 - Engineering Self-Organising Applications Work., to be held within AAMAS 2004, New York, USA, July 20, 2004.
• IPC member at WSC 2004 – 9th Online World Conf. On Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, on the WWW, 20 Sept. - 8 Oct., 2004.
• IPC member at IV 2004 – 8th Int. Conf. on Information Visualisation, London, UK, 14-16 July, 2004.
• IPC member at SCI 2004 - 8th World Multi-Conf. on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 18-21 July, 2004.
• IPC member at CISCI 2004 - 3ra Conf. IberoAmericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática, Orlando, Florida, USA, 21-25 July, 2004.
• IPC member at CCCT 2004 - Int. Conf. on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, Austin, Texas, USA, 21-25 July, 2004.
• IPC member at DART 2004 – Int. Symposium on Digital Art, London, UK, 14-16 July, 2004.

2003

• IPC member at CIARP 2003 – Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition, Habana, Cuba.
• IPC member at MAEB 2003 - Spanish Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Algorithms, Asturias, Gijon, Spain.
•  “Data Mining” Theme Chair at IADIS 2002 and 2003 - 1st and 2nd Internet WWW Int. Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

1999-2003:

GAAL´99 - 3rd Workshop on Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life, IST, Lisbon, April 1999, LASEEB, IST. SAC´02 - ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Carlos III de Madrid Univ., AI & Computational Logic Track, March 10-14, 2002, Madrid, Spain. SCI´02 & CISCI´02 - 6th World Multi Conf. & 1st Ibero-American Conf. on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA. IADIS´02 – 1st Int. WWW-Internet Conf., Int. Assoc. for the Development of Information Society, November 13-15, 2002, Lisbon. HICSS´02 - 36th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences (Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing track), Big Island, Hawaii, Jan. 6-9, 2003. IADIS´03 - Conf. Ibero-Americana WWW-Internet  Int. Assoc. for the Development of Information Society, Algarve, Portugal, 8-9 Nov. 2003. CIARP´03, 8th Ibero American Congress on Pattern Recognition, 26-29 Nov. 2003, Havana, Cuba. CISCI´03 - 2nd Ibero-American Conf. on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 31, August 02, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA.