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Memberships of Scientific Associations, Academies, Societies

• A member of the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (Head Office in Leeds, UK) since 1996.
• A scientific member of the International Association for Cybernetics (Secretariat in Namur, Belgium), since 1991.
• A member of the Cybernetics Academy “Stefan Odobleja” (Secretariats in Milan, Italy, and Bucharest, Romania) since 1994.
• A member of the permanent electronic conference “International Forum of Educational Technology and Society – IFETS” (head office in Sankt Augustin, Germany) since 1998.
• A member of the Moscow Mathematical Society.

Organizational Activity in International Professional Communities

• A member of the Editorial Board of INFORMATICA. An International Journal of Computing and Informatics (Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe) since 1992
An Associate Editor (Peer-reviewed publications, Europe) of The International Peer-Reviewed On-Line Journal "Educational Technology and Society" (Sankt Augustin - near Bonn, Germany) since 1998.
• A member of the International Steering Committee of METALOGICON. An International Journal of Pure and Applied Logic, Linguistics, and Philosophy (Roma, Italy) since 2000.
• An Editor of the Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and Agent Communication. INFORMATICA, 1998, Vol. 22, No. 4.This Special Issue includes the papers from Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, U.S.A.
• An Editor of the Special Issue on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems. INFORMATICA, 2000, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March). This Special Issue includes 10 papers from Australia, France, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, Taiwan.
• Guest Editor of The Special Issue “Developing Creativity and Large Mental Outlook in the Computer Age” of the International Peer-reviewed On-Line Journal “Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts”, Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2001); this Special Issue contains 6 papers from Canada, France, Japan, Russia, U.S.A.
• Guest Editor of The Special Issue “Developing Creativity and Large Mental Outlook in the Computer Age” of the International Peer-reviewed On-Line Journal “Educational Technology and Society”, Volume 4, Issue 2 (April 2001). This Special Issue contains 11 papers from Australia, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia.
• An initiator of the permanent electronic conference “International Forum of Educational Technology and Society – IFETS” (head office in Sankt Augustin, Germany);

  a moderator of the Discussion “The Necessity and an Outline of an Integral Approach to Designing Intelligent Tutoring Systems of a New Generation (Towards Increasing Effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer on the Basis of Ideas and Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science), August 1 – 12, 1998

• A member of the Programme Committees of the following International Scientific Conferences and Congresses:

• The First Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases – NLDB'95, Versailles, France, June 28 – 29, 1995;
• 14th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, August 1995;
• 15th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, August 1998;
• The International Multi-Conferences “New Information Society” (IS’98, S’99, IS’2000, IS’2001), Ljubljana, Slovenia (Europe), October 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001;
• The First International Conference on Consciousness in Science and Philosophy, November 6-7, 1998, Charleston, Illinois, U.S.A.;
• The 1999 International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems - DWACOS'99 (Baden-Baden, Germany, 3-4 August 1999) in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (Baden-Baden, Germany, 2-7 August 1999);
• The First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering ( WISE'2000), June 19-20, 2000, Hong Kong;
• The 10th International Database Symposium on Mobile, XML and Post-relational Databases (IDS2000) as a part of WISE'2000;
• The 11th International Conference "Information and Intelligent Systems - IIS 2000" (University of Zagreb, Varazdin, Croatia, September 2000).
• The First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems - ICICIS 2002 (June 24 - 26, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt).

• Chair of the Interdisciplinary Symposium “From Ideas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to New Theories and Methods of Teaching” under the framework of the 14th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, August 1995
• Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Symposium “Ideas of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy for Social Progress” under the framework of the 15th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium, August 1998
• Chair of the First International Workshop "Developing Creativity and Large Mental Outlook in the Computer Age - CLMO'2000" in conjunction with The Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI2000) "Approaching a New Millenium: Lessons from the Past - Prospects for the Future", University of Bergen, 14 - 18 August 2000, Web-site http://www.uib.no/issei2000 , Workshop No. 511(22 presentations from Australia, Canada, England, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Romania, Russia, U.S.A.).

  The selected, modified, and extended papers presented at CLMO’2000 are published in the Special Issues of the International Peer-Reviewed On-Line Journal “Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts”, Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2001) and of the International Peer-Reviewed On-Line Journal “Educational Technology and Society”, Volume 4, Issue 2 (April 2001).