Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asta Slotkienė
Department: Cyber-Social Systems Engineering Group
Position: Associate Professor, Researcher, Head of Group
Address: Akademijos st. 4, Vilnius
E-mail:
Scientific publications
Scientific and other project
COST action. CA24121 - Knowledge Graphs in the Era of Large Language Models.
- WG2: Domain-specific tasks of LLMs based on KGs: Lead of the CyberSecurity domain
WG6: Evaluation and Validation Frameworks: Lead of subgroup on research Sensitivity of Quality Metrics in KG and KG+LLM Systems
2022-2026 m. Master of Science in Smart, Secure and Interconnected Systems. Grant European Commission (Brussel, BE) GRANT_NUMBER: 101083531
2022-2024 m. Embracing Rapid Application Development (RAD) Skills Opportunity as a Catalyst for Employability and Innovation.
2020-2022 m. Extension of accounting and business management systems using the artificial intelligence methods Nr. 01.2.1-LVPA-K-856-01-0083
2014-2018 m. Erasmus+ project „Open University for virtual mobility“ Project no. 2014-1-LT01-KA203-000550.
2012-2015 m. Tempus project „High objectives of national organisational reform“. Project no. 530284-TEMPUS+1-2012-1-ES-TEMPUS-JPHES
Presentation at scientific conferences
Miliauskaitė, Jolanta; Slotkienė, Asta; Plankis, Tomas; Mendes Gomes, Luis. Cognitive issues implications of AI interaction strategies in introductory programming course: an empirical study of Lithuania // Making ISD sustainable: Reloaded with AI and automation: 34th international conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2026), September 2–4, 2026, Prague, Czech Republic: proceedings: Track 6: Learning, education, and training for ISD. Prague: Czech Technical University in Prague, 2026. ISBN 9788001075852. ISSN 2938-5202. p. [1-12]. DOI: 10.62036/ISD.2026.171.
Zapkus, Dovydas Marius; Slotkienė, Asta. Impact assessment of structured results for the reliability of LLM-generated tests // 2026 Open Conference of Electrical, Electronic and Information Sciences (eStream), 23-24 April 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania: IEEE, 2026. ISBN 9798319543882. eISBN 9798319543875. ISSN 2831-5634. eISSN 2690-8506. p. [1-7]. DOI: 10.1109/eStream70144.2026.11511497.
Lupeikienė, Audronė; Miliauskaitė, Jolanta; Slotkienė, Asta; Paliulionienė, Laima; Maskeliūnas, Saulius; Sabaliauskas, Darius. Quality characteristics of cyber-physical-social systems: a systematic literature review // Digital business and intelligent systems: 17th international Baltic conference, Baltic DB&IS, Tartu, Estonia, June 28–July 1, 2026 : proceedings. Cham : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2026. ISBN 9783032308627. eISBN 9783032308634. p. 155-168. (Communications in computer and information science, ISSN 1865-0929, eISSN 1865-0937; vol. 3085). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-30863-4_10.
Oskaras Klimašauskas, Asta Slotkienė, Gintautas Dzemyda. Augmentative and Alternative Communication personalisation with PECS cards using
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: A Comparative Evaluation of Simulated Strategy Environments // Conference "Artificial intelligence technologies in medicine: research and diagnostics", 2025 spalio 23 d.: thesis /program committee: Dr Linas Petkevičius, Prof. dr. Arvydas Laurinavičius, Prof. habil. dr. Gintautas Dzemyda. Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademija (LMA); Lihuania Artificial intelligence Associataion. Thesis: https://www.lma.lt/uploads/Konferencijos%20Dirbtinio%20intelekto%20technologijos%20medicinoje%20teze%CC%87s%202025.10.19.pdf
Slotkiene, A., Miliauskaite, J. An Empirical Study in Lithuania: Perceptions of Individual and Social Factors Influencing Software Product Quality. In the International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) (No. 33rd). Belgrade, Serbia, September 2-5, 2025.
Zapkus, Dovydas Marius; Slotkienė, Asta. Quality assessment of LLM models generated unit tests: quality metrics completeness from a code-aware perspective // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, Druskininkai, Lithuania, November 28-30, 2024. Vilnius
Miliauskaitė, Jolanta; Slotkienė, Asta; Gomes, Luis Mendes. Social factors affecting internal stakeholders’ perceptions of software product quality characteristics // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, Druskininkai, Lithuania, November 28-30, 2024
Miliauskaitė, Jolanta; Kalibatienė, Diana; Slotkienė, Asta. A causality space model of the web service quality based on fuzzy theory // DAMSS: 14th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, Druskininkai, Lithuania, November 30 - December 2, 2023.
Editorial board and reviewing
Managing Editor of Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, https://www.bjmc.lu.lv/editorial-board/
Associate Editor in the journal of "Informatics in Education"
Organising Committee member of Baltic DB&IS'2024
Conference Baltic DB&IS'2026 forum program committee member https://dbis2026.cs.ut.ee/Main/ForumProgramCommittee.
Program committee member of ICMarkTech'25, SAC 2025, SS AIEDUMED’25, CompSysTech'25, EDUCON 2026, CompSysTech'26
Professional development
AIces 2026. 1st International School on the Cognitive, Ethical and Societal Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. Institute for Research, Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London. (30/03/2026-04/02/2026, Porto-Maia, Portugal).
International student groups: teaching, communication, and learning material preparation in English, VU Educational Competence Centre, 17-hour training program, from 5 to 26 March. Lecturers: Prof. Dr Gindrutė Kasnauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rasa Paulienė.
VU Educational Competence Centre 6-hour training program "Developing scientific text comprehension skills: Application of an academic debate task" from 17 to 17 February. Lecturer:
DeepLearn 2025. 12th International School on Deep Learning. Institute for Research, Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London University of Maia, Portugal. 2025-07-21 to 25
DeepLearn 2024. 11th International School on Deep Learning. Institute for Research, Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London University of Maia, Portugal. 2024-07-15 to 19
PS Development Trends. Devbridge/Cognizant Softvision. Lithuania, 2022-08-24 to 25, 2023-08-29 to 30, 2024-08-27 to 29
Robotic Process Automation. UAB „Office Samurai Nordics." Lithuania. 2020-01-23 to 24
Creative Commons Licenses. University of Oviedo. Spain. 2015-11-09 to 13
Contextual Modelling. Paris 6 Computer Science Laboratory, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Professor Patrick Brézillon). France. 2010-04-8 to 12
Erasmus visits:
ERASMUS teaching visit at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (Spain), January 27-31
Erasmus+ teaching visit to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (Spain), 14-19 January
Erasmus+ staff training visit to Madeira University (Portugal), 6-9 May
Erasmus+ teaching visit to the Azorų University (Portugal), 17-21 June
Erasmus+ teaching visit to Maia University (Portugal), 15-19 July.
Honours and awards
IEEE certificate for the best master's thesis of the Information Systems Software Engineering Master's degree program of graduate Augustus Mikulėnas, "Machine Learning-Based User Interface Development for Users with Special Needs." 2022
Best presentation, "Algorithm of Contextual Information Formation for Smart Learning Object," awarded in the section Smart e-Learning at the 17th International KES Conference on Smart Education and Smart E-Learning (KES-SEEL-17), held on June 21–23, 2017, in Vilamoura, Portugal.