Professional Activities
British Computer Society Professional Examination Board 2019-Date
British Computer Society Professional Examination Board 2006-2007
1987 onwards: Member of British Computer Society HEQ Examiner's board
Inspector for British Computer Society Professional Development Scheme 1992-1998
Chairman Wolverhampton branch of British Computer Society 1989-91
Publicity secretary for Wolverhampton BCS Branch 1991-2006
Treasurer Wolverhampton BCS Branch 2006-date
Accreditor for British Computer Society 1998-date.
Member British Computer Society Academic Accreditation Committee 2008-date
Member of the Editorial Panel of Information and Software Technology 1991-1994
Member of the International Editorial board of Information Software and Technology 1994-2006
Organiser of the seminar series "New Directions in Software Development" 1988-1994
Organiser of BCS Data Management Conference DM91
Organiser of the Ninth British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD-9)
Member of BNCOD steering committee 1992-1996
Member of the BNCOD-9, BNCOD-10, BNCOD-12, BNCOD-13, BNCOD-14, BNCOD-15, BNCOD-17, BNCOD-18, BNCOD-19, BNCOD-20, BNCOD-21, BNCOD-22, BNCOD-23, BNCOD-24, BNCOD-25 programme committee
Member of the International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS) '97 organising committee
Publicity and publications chair on the EDBT(Extending Database Technology) '94 organising committee
Publicity chair on the E-R (Entity Relationship) '94 organising committee
Co-General Conference Chair for the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) '97
Finance Chair for the Very Large Database (VLDB) Conference 1999
Member of Programme Committee European Conference on e-Government 2002 and 2003
Prize Chair for British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 21)
Programme Committee Member International Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Programme Committee Chair, British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 22)
Member of British Computer Society Professional Examination Board. 2005-2007
Key note speaker IAADIS IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005, October 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
Conference co-chair: The First International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications ( SPCA06 ) August 3-5, 2006, Urumchi, Xinjiang, P.R. China
Key note speaker The First International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications ( SPCA06 ) August 3-5, 2006, Urumchi, Xinjiang, P.R. China
Programme committee member International Workshop on Object Role Modeling 2006, 2007, 2008
Programme Committee member 11th and 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work in Design (CSCWD2007, CSCWD2008, CSCWD2009)
Conference committee co-chair The Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07) July 26-27, 2007, Birmingham, UK
Conference Committee co-chair The First International Symposium on Information Technologies and Applications in Education (ISITAE07) November 23-25, 2007 in Kunming International Convention & Exhibition Center , Kunming, China.
Programme Committee Member Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing Systems - Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008)