Prof. Weiru Liu's Professional Activities (conference organization, program committee members etc)



  • Member of EPSRC College 2006-

  • Member of the PostGraduate Research (PGR) Joint Consultative Committee, School of Electronics, Eletrical Engineering and Computer Science, QUB (2008--)

  • Deputy Head of the Faculty of Informatics Postgraduate Research School at University of Ulster (2001-2003)

  • Committee member of the University of Ulster Research Degrees Committee (2001-2003)

    Journal Special Issues:

  • Co-editor (with Salem Benferhat, Laurence Cholvy, Anthony Hunter) of Special Issue on Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Imprecision and Conflict in Multiple Data Sources, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 2004

  • Co-editor (Dave Bustard, Roy Sterritt) of Special Issue on Management of Uncertainty in Computing Applications, Journal of Soft Computing, 2003

    Conferences/Workshops

  • Chair of the Eleventh European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU'11). 29 June to 1st July 2011, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

  • PC member of AAAI'11(tutorial),

  • PC member of DALI'10

  • PC member of LORI'11

  • PC member of SUM'11

  • PC member of UAI'11

  • PC member of UR'11
  • Programme committee member of IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'11) April, 11-15, 2011, Paris, France.

  • Programme committee member of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'10). 11-15 July, 2010, Atlanta, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI'10). 8-11 July, 2010,California.

  • Programme committee member of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'10). 16-20 August, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Programme committee member of the fifth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS'10) (co-organised with ECAI 2010). 16-20 August, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Programme committee member of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development KEOD 2010 (KEOD'10), October 25-28, 2010, Valencia, Spain.

  • Programme committee member of the Workshop on the Theory of Belief Functions (Belief Function'10), 1-2 April, 2010, Brest, France.

  • Programme committee member of the 4th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management Conference (SUM'10), 27-29 September, 2010. Toulouse, France.

  • Programme committee member of FLAIRS 2010, Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR'10), 19-21 May, 2010, Florida, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the third International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'10), September 1-3, 2010, Belfast, UK.

  • Programme committee member of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'2010)

  • Programme committee member of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'09), 11-17 July, 2009, Pasadena, California.

  • Programme committee member of the Tenth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty (ECSQARU'09), 1-3 July, 2009, Italy.

  • Programme committee member of FLAIRS 2009, Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR'09), 19-21 May, 2009, Florida, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the 3rd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM'09), September 28-30, 2009, Napoli, Washington DC, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the third International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'09), November 26-29, 2009, Vienna, Austria.

  • Programme committee member of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development KEOD 2009 (KEOD'09), October 6 - 8, 2009, Madeira, Portugal.

  • Programme committee member of The 5th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'09) and the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'09) (ICNC'09-FSKD'09), 14-16 August, 2009, Tianjin, China.

  • Programme committee member of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'2009)

  • Programme committee member of 2009 World Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE'09), 19-21 May, 2009, Xiamen, China.

  • Programme committee member of 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC'09), 26-27 August, 2009, Hangzhou, China.

  • Programme committee member of FLAIRS 2008, Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR'08), 15-17 May, 2008, Florida, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS'08), 8-10 Sept, 2008, Toulouse, France.

  • Programme committee member of the 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM'08), October, 2008, Napoli, Italy.

  • Programme committee member of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'08), Cork, August 2008.

  • Programme committee member of the 2008 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID'08), 17-18 October, 2008, Wuhan, China.

  • Programme committee member of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'2008)

  • Programme committee member of the Scalable Uncertainty Management Conference (SUM'07), 10-12 October, 2007, Washington, USA.

  • Programme committee member of the Nineth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty (ECSQARU'07), October/November, 2007, Tunisia.

  • Programme committee member of 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'07), 2-6 December, 2007, Queensland, Australia.

  • Programme committee member of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management(KSEM'07), Australia, 28-30 November, 2007.

  • Programme committee member of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'2007), London, July 2007.

  • Programme committee member of the 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'07), Dublin, 29th - 31st August 2007.

  • Reviewer of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'07), 6-17 January, 2007.

  • Programme committee member of Theory of NMR and Uncertainty, at the Eleventh International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'06), 30 May -1 June 2006.

  • Programme committee member of the First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'06), 5-8 August 2006.

  • Scientific committee member of the Third International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS'06). 5-7 September, 2006.

  • Programme committee member for the poster track at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'06). 28 August -1st September, 2006.

  • Chair of PhD Forum of the 23rd British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'06 ). July 17-20, 2006

  • Programme committee member of the 23rd British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'06 ). July 17-20, 2006

  • Programme committee member of the IEEE SMCals Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems (SMCals'06). 24-26 July, 2006.

  • Chair of Organizing Committee of the 17th Irish conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'06 ). 11-13 September, 2006

  • Programme committee member of the 17th Irish conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'06 ). 11-13 September, 2006

  • Programme committee member of the Eighth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty, Barcelona, Spain, July 6-9, 2005. (ECSQARU'2005)

  • Programme committee member of the Uncertainty Frameworks Workshop, a subworkshop at the Tenth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'2004)

  • Key-Node of EUropean Network of Excellent on Intelligent TEchnologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE) (2001-2004)

  • Committee member of Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence in Telecom and Multimedia of EUNITE, (2001-2004)

  • Co-Chair of Ecsqaru'03 Workshop on Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Imprecision and Conflict in Multiple Data Sources

  • Programme committee member of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'2003)

  • Programme committee member of the Seventh European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty, July, Aalborg, Denmark (ECSQARU'2003 )

  • Programme committee member of FLAIRS 2003, Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR), 11-15 May, 2003, St. Augustine, Florida

  • Programme committee member of FLAIRS 2002, Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR), 16-18 May, 2002, Pensacola, Florida

  • Co-Organizer of Soft-Ware: Computing in an Imperfect World, 8 - 10 April, 2002, Belfast, Northern Ireland

  • Chair of the Second European EUNITE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Telecommunications and Multimedia, 8 April, 2002, Belfast, Northern Ireland

  • Programme committee member of First European EUNITE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Telecommunications and Multimedia, 13-14 December, 2001, Tenerife, Spain

  • Chair of the Workshop on Soft Computing, 21st September, 2000, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland