1. Reviewer
Journals
Regular reviewer for: Nature, Cognitive Science, Artificial
Life, Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Ph.D. thesis commitees
Bert Bredeweg
(Univ of Amsterdam,1986), Richard Benjamins (Univ of
Amsterdam, 1993), Henry Lieberman
(Univ of Paris), Jose del R. Millan
(Univ of Barcelona), Roman Cunis (Univ of Hamburg),
Yves Donnard (Ecole Normale Superieur Paris, 1998), Berrah (Univ. de Grenoble, 1998), Hadassa (VUB Brussel, 2000),
Liane Gabora (VUB Brussels, 2001), J-C Baillie (Paris, 2001), Olivier Simenon (Montpellier, 2001).
Proposals
Regular reviewer for: Flemish FWO, European Commission (Esprit program since
first framework in 1982), CNRS (France).
2. Role in Scientific Organisations
Member New York Academy of Sciences
Founding Board Member of
ECCAI, the European organisation for
Artificial Intelligence. Aided in setting up ECCAI headquarters in Belgium.
Member steering committee Society for AI and Simulation of Behavior (until 1990).
Founder and president (from 1984 until 1994) of BAAI, the Belgian AI organisation. BAAI has
now merged with the Dutch AI organisation to become the
BNVKI.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
GMD, the German National Research
Institute in Computer Science, from 1996 until 2000 when GMD became part of Fraunhofer.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of
DFKI, the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence. (from 1988 until 1993).
Member Scientific Advisory Board
Electrum (National Swedish Institute for Computer Science)
(in 1994)
Member FWO commmission for computer science.
3. Role in Journals
Co-Editor
- and co-founder (with Bob Wielinga) until early 90's:
AI Communications. Now the main European AI Journal.
- and co-founder (with Sherman Wilcox)
Journal Evolution of Communication.
(Walter Benjamins)
Associated Editor:
-
Artificial Life Journal (MIT Press)
- Adaptive Behavior Journal
(Sage Publications, London)
-
Journal of Universal Computer Science (Springer)
- Journal of Complex Systems (Hermes)
-
Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer)
Member editorial board:
-
Cognitive Science Quarterly (Hermes)
- In Cognito
(Grenoble) (French)
- Artificial Intelligence Abstracts (until 1991)
4. Role in Conferences
Program Chairman:
- European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop 94 (Hoegaarden/Brussels).(with
Walter Van de Velde)
- Director NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Biology and Technology of Autonomous
Agents. Trento Italy, 1-12 march 1993.
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 86 (Brighton)
- Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior (AISB) 91 (Manchester)
- Computational Intelligence 1989 (Milan)
Member Programme Committee :
Regular editions of IJCAI, ECAI, EKAW, MAAW, ECOOP, ICMAS, ISMICK, SAB, ECAL,
ALIFE, EVOLAN.
5. Non-scientific Advisory roles
Board member of the Beursteater, Brussels. A Flemish theatre in Brussels specialised
in avant-garde theatre and music.
Member of the Advisory Board for the Arts, Brussels Region. Advicing the
Minister of culture on funding for all artistic disciplines (until 1999).
Member of the Committee for the Industrial Expansion of Paris.
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