International Distinctions – Editorships – Conferences Organization - Refereeing for International journals / Conferences.

• 01Editor in Chief (2008-3/2016)“International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE)”, InderScience Publishers, UK & Switzerland http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsise, SJR (2010):       0.026      & SNIP (2010): 0.263
• 02Academic Editor, Editorial Board: Communications,The Scientific World Journal, Hindawi publishers (2010-2016), http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/editors/communications/
• 03Academic Editor, Editorial Board,The Journal of Applied Mathematics, Hindawi publishers,http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/editors/
• 04Editor in the Editorial Board of the journal, ISRN Computer Engineering, Hindawi publishers, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/editors/computer.engineering/
• 05Editor (2008-2011)in the Editorial Board of the journal, Bentham Publishers, The Open Information Science Journal, ISSN: 1874-947X,http://www.bentham.org/open/toiscij/EBM.htm
• 06General Chairin the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, AIPR-07, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12, 2007, in the International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice, SETP-07, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12 2007 as well as in the International conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems, ARCS-08, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 7-10 2008 and ARCS-2009& ARCS-2010, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2009/2010
• 07General Co-ChairIEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2009), Shenzhen, China, 11-12 May 2009 & IEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), Thessaloniki, Greece, 1-3 July 2010 & IEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2011), Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia, 17-18 May 2011, Manchester UK 2012, 16-17 July 2012. Beijing China, 2013, Santorini, Greece, 2014
• 08Programm Chair and Special session organizerin IWSSIP 2005, September 2005, Chalkis
• 09Programm Chair and Special session organizerin IWSSIP 2009, June 2009, Chalkis
• 10Invited Researcher at the AntiCancer Research Center of Germany "DKFZ", Heidelberg,1-31 July 1995, for research in Neural Networks applications and wavelet signal representation in large DNA sequencing projects.
• 11International Programm Committee Member στα συν?δρια
  • MLDM-2007 up to MLDM-2016, NABIC 2011
  • The IASTED International Conferences on Biomedical Engineering BioMED 2003 up to BIOMED 2011, Salzburg, Austria
  • SCI-2002 - SCI-2010 (Conferences on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS and INFORMATICS )
  • SETN-2006-2008-2010, NUM-2007 etc.
• 12Session chair BMSD 2017, Barcelona, Spain, 4-6 July 2017
• 13Session chair IST 2010, IEEE, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1-3 July 2010
• 14Session chair IWSSIP 2009, IEEE, Chalkida, Greece, June 2009
• 15Session chair IST 2008, IEEE, Chania, Greece, 10-12 Sept. 2008
• 16Session chair HAIS 2008, 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, Burgos, Spain, Session W1.2 (@Room B02)Connectionist Models I, 24-26 Sept. 2008
• 17Session chair WISP 2007, IEEE, Alcala de Henares (Madrid) Spain, October, 3-5, 2007
• 18Session chair IST 2006, IEEE, Minory, Italy, April 2006
• 19Session chair ICANN 2005, Warsaw, Poland, September 2005
• 20Session chair (14:00 – SESSION 9 – COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS II – Algorithms and Models, 5/11/02) at conference «The IASTED International Conference on Applied Modelling and Simulation(AMS-2002)”, November 4-6, 2002, Cambridge, USA.<
• 21Session chair (08:30 – SESSION 6 – COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS I – Information Systems and Processing, 5/11/02) at conference «The IASTED International Conference on Applied Modelling and Simulation (AMS-2002)”, November 4-6, 2002, Cambridge, USA.
• 22Session organizer and chair (Communications and Security, 11/7/01) at conference CSCC 2001 (WSES), Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 9/7/01-12/7/01.
• 23Session organizer and chair (Neural Network Applications, 27/10/98) at conference CSC’98 (IMACS), Piraeus, Greece, 26/10/98-28/10/1998.
• 24Session chair (Pattern and image analysis, 13--15/3/1997) at workshop ASPM-MRI-97, Xanthi, Greece 13-15/3/1997.
• 25Session chair (Applications 6, 28th November 1995) at the IEEE conference ICNN’95 (IEEE Conference on Neural Networks), Perth, Australia 27 /11/ 1995- 1 /12/ 1995.
• 26Reviewer at refereed journals:AMS (American Mathematical Society) Reviews, Journal of Intelligent Systems (Brunel University, UK), Journal of Franklin Institute (USA), journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (USA), Pattern Recognition Letters journal, IEEE Trans. Circuit & Systems journal, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, IEEE trans. SMC, IEEE Trans. Measurement and Instrumentation, GVIP journal, ELSEVIER journals (EAAI, Neurocomputing, European Journal of Operational Research, INS etc.), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM) journal and
• 27Reviewer at refereed international conferences(IWSIP96, IWSSIP 2005-2010, EPY 2001-, SΕΤΝ-02— SETN-06—SETN-08,  ECC-2003,           SCI-2003, SCI-2004-2011, IASTED/BIOMED- 2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008-2011, IEEE IST 2006-2014 conferences etc., MLDM conferences, ICINCO 2008-2017, etc.).