Professional Activities

1.      Senior Member of IEEE and Member of ACM, AAAS and New York Academy of Sciences.

2.      Editor of Journal of Combinatorial Math. and Combinatorial Computing, 1992 - Present.

3.      Associate Editor of Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 2008 - Present.

4.      Reviewed grant proposals for NSF, NSERC, and the States of Louisiana and Oklahoma.

5.      Refereed papers for J. of ACM, ACM TOPLAS, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, SIAM J. on Computing, SIAM J. on Algebraic and Discrete Methods, SIAM J. on Discrete Math., IEEE Computers, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, Acta Informatica, Discrete Applied Math., INFOR, Informatica, J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, J. of Algorithms, Algorithmica, Networks, Information Processing Letters, Parallel Processing Letters, J. of Real-Time Systems, Performance Evaluation, Operations Research, Math. of Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, European J. of Operational Research, Omega, Annals of Operations Research, J. of Combinatorial Math. and Combinatorial Computing, Ars Combinatoria, J. of Scheduling, International J. of Production Economics, IIE Transactions.

6.      Chairman of the Operating Systems Session in the Second International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 78), Chicago, IL, November 1978.

7.      Registration Chairman of COMPSAC 79 and COMPSAC 80, Chicago, IL.

8.      Taught a programming course (using C Language) at Teletype Corporation as part of the Continuing Engineering Studies of Northwestern University, September 1979 - December 1979.

9.      Registration Chairman of the Tenth International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Evanston, IL, June 1980.

10.  Chairman of the Operating Systems Session in the 1981 National Computer Conference (NCC 81), Chicago, IL, 1981.

11.  Gave talks at The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 1982.

12.  Panelist of the Distributed Data Processing Session in the MACSTA, CAPAMA, DSYSI Joint Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, June 1983.

13.  Taught an Introduction to Operating Systems Course at Teletype Corporation as part of the Continuing Engineering Studies of Northwestern University, January 1984 - March 1984 and January 1985 - March 1985.

14.  Chairman of the Complexity and Algorithms Session in the 1986 Conference on  Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1986.

15.  Panelist in the Real-Time System Issue Workshop sponsored by ONR, Austin, TX, November 1986.

16.  Panelist in the CMU Workshop on Fundamental Issues in Distributed Real-Time Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1987.

17.  Program Committee Member of the Ninth IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Huntsville, AL, December 1988.

18.  Program Committee Member of the Tenth IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Santa Monica, CA, December 1989.

19.  Gave an invited talk at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1990.

20.  Program Committee Member of the Twelfth IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, San Antonio, TX, December 1991.

21.  Gave an invited talk at the George Washington University, November 1992.

22.  Member of the Steering Committee of the Software Technology Track in the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, HI, January 1993.

23.  Gave an invited talk at the Kansas State University, March 1993.

24.  Gave an invited talk at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, October 1993.

25.  Program Committee Member of the Fourteenth IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Raleigh-Durham, NC, December 1993.

26.  Member of the Steering Committee of the Software Technology Track in the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, January 1996.

26.  Program Committee Member of the 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, Theory and Applications, New York, NY, July 2005.

28.  Program Committee Member of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, Theory and Applications, Paris, France, August, 2007.