Keynote Speaker: "Conversational AI Agents: The Intricacies of Robust Dialogue Management" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "Pre-AI vs. AI-Enhanced Approaches" - Steve Chan
Research Focus
The Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory engages in research that creates, develops, and enhances decision-making systems. Supported activities include related principles (e.g., System Analysis) and accepted theories (e.g., Probability Theory, Decision Theory) in various fields as well as specifically chosen disciplines (e.g., Information Science). Among other research areas, optimal pathway analysis is a core research focus.
Research Domains
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
The Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory has engaged in a variety of artificial intelligence and machine learning-related research, such as in the areas of:
• Goals Processing in [AI] Agentic Frameworks
• Cyber Resilience - Pre-AI vs. AI-Enhanced Approaches
• An Anatomy on largeLM, smallLM and tinyLM (the DeepSeek case)
• Software Engineering in the AI Era
• AI-related Challenges on Security of Cloud Services
• AI-related Technology Innovation and Business Management
• Adapting for a Generative-AI World
• AI-based Computation Technologies
• The Challenges of Leveraging AI our Everyday Workflow Processes
• Hybridized Machine Learning Implementation for a Complex Network Cyber-Physical Supply Chain Analysis
Cyber
The Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory has engaged in a variety of cyber-related research, such as in the areas of:
• An Emergent Cyber-Topology Attack Vector Assessment
• Cyber Protection: Are we Correctly Metering Salient Data and Accurately Processing them?
• Leveraging Sidecars for a More Probabilistic Cyber Convergence
• Systems Resilience: Reliable Cyber-protection (cyber defense, guaranteed reliability, cyber awareness, cyber-space, on-line cyber protection, traffic, etc)
• Log Analysis
• Challenges to Cyber Services
• The Nexus of Cognitive Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security – Anomaly Detection at Scale
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Computing to Meet the Increasing Cycles of Adaptation within the Cyber Domain
• Advances to Protect the Critical Assets
• Cyber Attack Surfaces and the Interoperability of Architectural Application Domain Resiliency
• Advanced Approaches to Enhance Cyber Applications
• Cyber-Centered Major Challenges, Monitoring and Evaluating the Cyber-health of Industrial Systems
• Enhancing Cyber Infrastructural Resilience for Cyber Cities
Data Analytics
The Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory has engaged in a variety of data analytics-related research, such as in the areas of:
• Applications for Data Analytics
• The Value of Data Analytics for Resiliency and Sustainability Efforts
Conference Venues
The Second International Conference on AI-based Systems and Services (AISyS 2025)
September 28, 2025 to October 2, 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal
The Seventeenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (Future Computing 2025)
April 6, 2025 to April 10, 2025 - Valencia, Spain
Keynote Speaker: "The Non-Obvious and Non-Trivial Aspects of Updating a Robust Heuristic for a Real-World Scenario AI-centric System" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "Technology Innovation and Business Management" - Steve Chan
The Sixteenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (Future Computing 2024)
April 14, 2024 to April 18, 2024 - Venice, Italy
Keynote Speaker: "Counterpoising Ambiguity/Uncertainty for AI Systems" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "AI-based Computation Technologies - Benefits and Warnings" - Steve Chan
The 2023 IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications (IARIA Congress 2023)
November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023 - Valencia, Spain
Moderator: "The Challenges of Leveraging AI our Everyday Workflow Processes" - Steve Chan
The Eighth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2023)
September 25, 2023 to September 29, 2023 - Porto, Portugal
The 2022 IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications (IARIA Congress 2022)
July 24, 2022 to July 28, 2022 - Nice, France
Keynote Speaker: "Hybridized Machine Learning Implementation for a Complex Network Cyber-Physical Supply Chain Analysis" - Steve Chan
The Seventh International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2022)
November 13, 2022 to November 17, 2022 - Valencia, Spain
Keynote Speaker: "An Emergent Cyber-Topology Attack Vector Assessment" - Steve Chan
The Sixth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2021)
October 3, 2021 to October 7, 2021 - Barcelona, Spain
Chair/Moderator: "Cyber Protection: Are we Correctly Metering Salient Data and Accurately Processing them?" - Steve Chan
The Fifth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2020)
October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020 - Nice, France - Virtual Participation due to COVID
Keynote Speaker: "Leveraging Sidecars for a More Probabilistic Cyber Convergence" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "Systems Resilience: Reliable Cyber-protection (cyber defense, guaranteed reliability, cyber awareness, cyber-space, on-line cyber protection, traffic, etc)" - Steve Chan
The Fourth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2019)
September 22, 2019 to September 26, 2019 - Porto, Portugal
Keynote Speaker: "A Cyber Key to Log Analysis" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "Panel on Challenges on Cyber Services" - Steve Chan
Session chair: "CYBER 4 / AICYBER: The Nexus of Cognitive Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security – Anomaly Detection at Scale" - Steve Chan
The Third International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2018)
November 18, 2018 to November 22, 2018 - Athens, Greece
Keynote Speaker: "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Computing to Meet the Increasing Cycles of Adaptation within the Cyber Domain" - Steve Chan
Moderator: "Panel on Challenges in Cyber Services - Advances to Protect the Critical Assets" - Tom Klemas
Panelist: "Panel on Challenges in Cyber Services - Advances to Protect the Critical Assets" - Steve Chan
Session Chair: "CYBER 2 / CAS-IAADR I: Cyber Attack Surfaces and the Interoperability of Architectural Application Domain Resiliency I" - Steve Chan
Session Chair: "CYBER 3 / CAS-IAADR II: Cyber Attack Surfaces and the Interoperability of Architectural Application Domain Resiliency II" - Tom Klemas
Instructors: Tutorial I: "Advanced Approaches to Enhance Cyber Applications" - Tom Klemas and Steve Chan
The Second International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2017)
November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain
Moderator: "Panel on Cyber Systems - Cyber-Centered Major Challenges, Monitoring and Evaluating the Cyber-health of Industrial Systems" - Steve Chan
The First International Conference on Advances in Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER 2016)
October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016 - Venice, Italy
Keynote Speaker: "Enhancing Cyber Infrastructural Resilience for Cyber Cities" - Steve Chan (submitted remotely)
Keynote Speaker: "Emerging Cyber Topics and Applications for Data Analytics" - Tom Klemas
The Fourth International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2015)
July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015 - Nice, France
Moderator: Special Panel - "The Value of Data Analytics for Resiliency and Sustainability Efforts" - Steve Chan
The Third International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2014)
August 24, 2014 to August 28, 2014 - Rome, Italy
Session Chair: "Fundamentals for Data Analytics" - Tom Klemas with support from Steve Chan
Acknowledgements
The members of the Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory would like to thank Dr. Keith Joiner, Group Captain (Ret'd) of the Capability Systems Centre, for the discussions and insights shared while in Athens, Greece, regarding defense-related design test and evaluation (e.g. submarines).