What we do
Addressing challenges triggered by the inherent variability of a software product family is what we do.
From design-time to run-time, we build approaches and tools to capitalize on existing systems to initiate a Software Product Line, to address the evolution of variability and to fit our approaches and tools to users skills.
Thanks to our industrial partners, we put to the test our ideas in heterogeneous industrial environments ranging from Induction Hob Firmwares to Train Control Systems.
Topics: Software Engineering, Software Product Lines, Model Driven engineering, search-based Software Engineering, Information Retrieval, Empirical Software Engineering.
Who we are

Carlos Cetina
PhD
Associate Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Francisca Pérez
PhD
Tenure Track Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Manuel Ballarín
Universidad San Jorge

Daniel Blasco
PhD Student
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Jaime Font
PhD
Tenure Track Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Jorge Echeverría
PhD
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Raul Lapeña
PhD
Universidad San Jorge

África Domingo
PhD Student
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Jorge Chueca
Universidad San Jorge

Lorena Arcega
PhD
Assistant Professor
Universidad San Jorge

Ana Marcen
PhD
Universidad San Jorge

Mar Zamorano
MSc Student
Universidad San Jorge

Rodrigo Casamayor
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
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.