What we do
In a world that runs on software, accelerating software development and maintenance is what we do.
Not only does the progress of our society rely on our ability to keep developing software, but the more software that is developed, the more it must be maintained in order to keep our society running.
There is much at stake.
Thanks to our industrial partners, we put our ideas to the test in heterogeneous industrial environments ranging from Induction Hob Firmwares to Train Control Systems.
Topics: Search-based Software Engineering, Model Driven engineering, Software Product Lines.

Who we are

Carlos Cetina
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Associate Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Jaime Font
PhD
University of Oslo
Associate Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Lorena Arcega
PhD
University of Oslo
Tenure Track Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Francisca Pérez
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Associate Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Jorge Echeverría
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Ternure Track Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Ana Marcen
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Raúl Lapeña
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Manuel Ballarin
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de València
Universidad San Jorge

África Domingo
PhD Student
Universitat Politècnica de València
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Daniel Blasco
PhD Student
Universitat Politècnica de València
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Mar Zamorano
PhD Student
University College London
Universidad San Jorge

Rodrigo Casamayor
MSc Student
Universidad San Jorge

Jorge Chueca
MSc Student
Universidad San Jorge

Javier Veron
MSc Student
Universidad San Jorge

Jose Ignacio Trasobares
Undergraduate Student
Universidad San Jorge

Samuel Navarro
Undergraduate Student
Universidad San Jorge

Daniel Muñoz
Undergraduate Student
Universidad San Jorge

Daniel Laplana
Undergraduate Student
Universidad San Jorge
Standing on the shoulders of giants (research stays or/and thesis co-supervision):
Øystein Haugen (University of Oslo), Earl Barr, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman (University College London), David Lo (Singapore Management University), Tewfik Ziadi (Sorbonne University), Óscar Pastor (Universidad Politécnica Valencia)
What is happening now
Our Genetic Modeling work is an award-winning work!
We receive BRONZE AWARD - 18th Human-Competitive (Humies) Awards 2021 for our work on accelerating video game development with Genetic Modeling. First time a Spanish research team achieves a Humies award in 18 years of history of these awards!...
UML vs DSL @ CAISE21
We compared UML and DSL modeling languages and we find out that subjects underestimate the potential of their own models. África presented this work at CAISE 21. One more time, CAISE was a virtual event because of COVID-19, but there is a bright side on this,...
Our collaboration with LiP6 (Sorbonne University) presented at ICSE21
Feature Location is a key topic for SVIT (Universidad San Jorge) and LiP6 (Sorbonne University). We team up to tackle the challenge. Francisca Pérez presented the results of our collaboration at the International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2021. ...
Our research on accelerating video game development hits national news
Our research on accelerating video game development (aka Procedural Content Generation) hits national news. Video game industry, we are here to help 🙂 Research on video games make the national news for the first time....
Ana C. Marcén defended her thesis at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Ana C. Marcén recently defended her PhD thesis ‘Design of a Machine Learning-based Approach for Fragment Retrieval on Models’ at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in Spain. Thanks to the dissertation committee: Antonio Vallecillo, Jordi Cabot and Ignacio...
Raúl Lapeña defended his thesis at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Raúl Lapeña recently defended his PhD thesis ‘Traceability Links Recovery among Requirements and BPMN Models’ at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in Spain. Congratulations! Another step forward for our young research team.
Attendance @ CAiSE 2020
One of our new members, África Domingo, is attending the CAiSE 2020 conference (digital edition because of COVID-19). There, she presents the paper entitled “Evaluating the Benefits of Model-Driven Development”.
Attendance @ ASE 2019
One of our members, Francisca Pérez, attended the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019) in San Diego (California). There, she presented the paper entitled “Collaborative feature location in models...
Attendance @ CAiSE 2019
One of our members, Raúl Lapeña, attended the CAiSE 2019 conference in Rome. There, he presented the paper entitled “Improving Traceability Links Recovery in Process Models through an Ontological Expansion of Requirements”. He also participated in the...
Lorena Arcega defended her thesis at University of Oslo
Lorena Arcega, graduate and professor of our School of Architecture and Technology, who recently defended her PhD thesis ‘Feature and Bug Localization on Model-based Systems at Design time and Runtime’ in the Department of Informatics at the Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)...
Research stay at Sorbonne Université
One of our members, Dr. Francisca Pérez, started a research stay at Sorbonne Université & LIP6 in Paris. The research stay is hosted in the MoVe team by Dr.Tewfik Ziadi during three months in 2019. The goal of the stay is to establish research collaborations in...
Attendance @ ICT 2018 (Vienna)
Two of our members, Francisca Pérez and Raúl Lapeña, attended the ICT 2018 in Vienna for spreading the work of our research group in face to face meetings, and for looking for future collaborations in H2020 projects.
Research stay at University College London
For seven months, Carlos Cetina was at CREST centre of University College London. The work was in the intersection of Search-based Software Engineering and Model Driven Software Engineering.
Seminar at Aston University
Carlos Cetina was invited as speaker of the Computer Science Seminars of Aston University. If you need to localisate Features, Bugs, or Requirements in Software Models, this seminar is for you!
Attendance @ MODELS 2018 (Copenhagen)
Two of our members, Lorena Arcega and Manuel Ballarin were recently in Copenhagen (Denmark) where they participated in the 21st International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS). There, Lorena presented the paper entitled...