collaborator

Carlos Cetina Englada

PhDUniversitat Politècnica de València

Full ProfessorUniversitat Politècnica de València

Research

2026

MODELS

Game Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

The Software Modeling Paradox in Videogames: An Empirical Evaluation of Unreal Blueprints vs. Unity Visual Scripting

Jose Ignacio Trasobares

África Domingo

Lorena Arcega

Carlos Cetina

IST

Game Software Engineering

Empirical

Use and misuse of case studies and experiments in Game Software Engineering

JSS

Game Software Engineering

Phylogenetics

Procedural Content Generation

Software product families from a phylogenetics perspective for video game content generation

2025

IST

Game Software Engineering

Green Computing

Towards Green Game Software Engineering: A Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption Between the Widespread Unity and Unreal Video Game Engines

Carlos Pérez

Javier Verón

Francisca Pérez

Mª Ángeles Moraga

Coral Calero

Carlos Cetina

MODELS

Game Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

Deepening Our Understanding on the Use of Models and Code in Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment in Unreal Engine

Jose Ignacio Trasobares

ICSE

Game Software Engineering

Procedural Content Generation

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Video Game Procedural Content Generation Through Software Transplantation

Mar Zamorano

Daniel Blasco

Carlos Cetina

Federica Sarro

TOSEM

Game Software Engineering

Procedural Content Generation

Phylogenetics

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Introducing Phylogenetics in Search-based Software Engineering: Phylogenetics-aware SBSE

IST

Game Software Engineering

A Multiple Case Study on Reuse in Game Software Engineering

Jose Ignacio Trasobares

SoSyM

Game Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Boosting bug localization in software models of video games with simulations and component-specific genetic operations

2024

Awarded

ESEM

Game Software Engineering

Empirical

Procedural Content Generation

Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment Comparing Automated Content Generation Techniques

Mar Zamorano

África Domingo

Carlos Cetina

Federica Sarro

MODELS

Game Software Engineering

Green Computing

A Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption Between Visual Scripting models and C++ in Unreal Engine: Raising Awareness on the importance of Green MDD

Javier Verón

Carlos Pérez

Coral Calero

Mª Ángeles Moraga

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Game Software Engineering

Procedural Content Generation

Phylogenetics

Phylogenix: Bringing phylogenetics to Unity

SPLC

Game Software Engineering

Procedural Content Generation

Phylogenetics

Leveraging Phylogenetics in Software Product Families: The Case of Latent Content Generation in Video Games

TSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

A Systematic Literature Review of Model-Driven Engineering using Machine Learning

CAiSE

Game Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Improving Requirement Traceability by Leveraging Video Game Simulations in Search-Based Software Engineering

Óscar Pastor

Awarded

CAiSE

Game Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Comparing MDD and CcD in the Bug Localization Context: An Empirical Evaluation in Video Games

Óscar Pastor

IST

Game Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Search-based co-creation of software models: The case of particle systems for video games

Jorge Chueca

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

Jaime Font

SPE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

On the interaction between the search parameters and the nature of the search problems in search-based model-driven engineering

IST

Game Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Co-evolving scenarios and simulated players to locate bugs that arise from the interaction of software models of video games

Isis Roca

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

Lorena Arcega

2023

TSE

Game Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Studying the Influence and Distribution of the Human Effort in a Hybrid Fitness Function for Search-Based Model-Driven Engineering

Rodrigo Casamayor

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

Francisca Pérez

JSS

Game Software Engineering

Empirical

Model-Driven Engineering

Comparing software product lines and Clone and Own for game software engineering under two paradigms: Model-driven development and code-driven development

Jorge Chueca

Jose Ignacio Trasobares

IST

Game Software Engineering

The Consolidation of Game Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review of Software Engineering for Industry-scale Computer Games

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Advanced Information Systems Engineering – 35th International Conference, CAiSE 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, June 12-16, 2023, Proceedings

Marta Indulska

Iris Reinhartz-Berger

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

TOSEM

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

How the Quality of Maintenance Tasks is Affected by Criteria for Selecting Engineers for Collaboration

USPTO

Method and system for automatic synthesis of videogame assets

Jaime Font

Daniel Blasco

Carlos Cetina

2022

SPE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

On the influence of architectural languages on requirements traceability

Manuel Ballarín

Lorena Arcega

Vicente Pelechano

Carlos Cetina

Awarded

MODELS

Game Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Bug Localization in Game Software Engineering: Evolving Simulations to Locate Bugs in Software Models of Video Games

SPLC

Game Software Engineering

Empirical

Evaluating the Benefits of Software Product Lines in Game Software Engineering

Jose Ignacio Trasobares

África Domingo

Lorena Arcega

Carlos Cetina

MTA

Game Software Engineering

Procedural Content Generation

Procedural content improvement of game bosses with an evolutionary algorithm

SPE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

Evaluating the benefits of empowering model-driven development with a machine learning classifier

Ana Marcén

Francisca Pérez

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

HReSPL

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Feature Location in Models (FLiM): Design Time and Runtime

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

TSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Utilizing Automatic Query Reformulations as Genetic Operations to Improve Feature Location in Software Models

Francisca Pérez

Tewfik Ziadi

Carlos Cetina

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models

Raúl Lapeña

Francisca Pérez

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

2021

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Leveraging BPMN Particularities to Improve Traceability Links Recovery among Requirements and BPMN Models

Raúl Lapeña

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

JSS

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Comparison of Search Strategies for Feature Location in Software Models location

TOSEM

Classic Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Bug Localization in Model-Based Systems in the Wild

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

TSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Empowering the Human as the Fitness Function in Search-Based Model-Driven Engineering

Awarded

SoSyM

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Enhancing software model encoding for feature location approaches based on machine learning

Ana Marcén

Francisca Pérez

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Topic modeling for feature location in software models: Studying both code generation and interpreted models

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

Evaluating the influence of scope on feature location

África Domingo

Jorge Echeverría

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Empirical

Comparing UML-Based and DSL-Based Modeling from Subjective and Objective Perspectives

África Domingo

Jorge Echeverría

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

SoSyM

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Handling nonconforming individuals in searchbased model-driven engineering

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

Awarded

JSS

Game Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

An evolutionary approach for generating software models: The case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering

2020

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Empirical

An empirical study of performance using Clone & Own and Software Product Lines in an industrial context

Jorge Echeverría

Francisca Pérez

José Ignacio Panach

Carlos Cetina

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Empirical

On the influence of model fragment properties on a machine learning-based approach for feature location

Manuel Ballarín

Ana Marcén

Vicente Pelechano

Carlos Cetina

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Empirical

Model-Driven Engineering

Evaluating the Benefits of Model-Driven Development – Empirical Evaluation Paper

África Domingo

Jorge Echeverría

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

Comparing manual and automated feature location in conceptual models: A Controlled experiment

JSS

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Traceability Link Recovery between Requirements and Models using an Evolutionary Algorithm Guided by a Learning to Rank Algorithm: Train control and management case

Ana Marcén

Raúl Lapeña

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

IEEEA

Classic Software Engineering

Empirical

Evaluating Low-Cost in Internal Crowdsourcing for Software Engineering: The Case of Feature Location in an Industrial Environment

2019

IST

Game Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

A fine-grained requirement traceability evolutionary algorithm: Kromaia, a commercial video game case study

Daniel Blasco

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2019, Volume B, Paris, France, September 9-13, 2019

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Díaz

Laurence Duchien

Marianne Huchard

Rick Rabiser

Camille Salinesi

Christoph Seidl

Xhevahire Tërnava

Leopoldo Teixera

Thomas Thüm

Tewfik Ziadi

JSEP

Classic Software Engineering

The new era of software reuse

Rafael Capilla

Barbara Gallina

Carlos Cetina

JSEP

Classic Software Engineering

Opportunities for software reuse in an uncertain world: From past to emerging trends

Rafael Capilla

Barbara Gallina

Carlos Cetina

John Favaro

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Empirical

Improving Traceability Links Recovery in Process Models Through an Ontological Expansion of Requirements

Raúl Lapeña

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

SoSyM

Classic Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

An approach for bug localization in models using two levels: model and metamodel

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

ASE

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Collaborative feature location in models through automatic query expansion

2018

MODELS

Classic Software Engineering

Bug Management

Search-Based Software Engineering

Evolutionary Algorithm for Bug Localization in the Reconfigurations of Models at Runtime

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

MODELS

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Bug Management

Measures to report the Location Problem of Model Fragment Location

Manuel Ballarín

Ana Marcén

Vicente Pelechano

Carlos Cetina

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Locating Clone-and-Own Relationships in Model-Based Industrial Families of Software Products to Encourage Reuse

IST

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Bug Management

Fragment retrieval on models for model maintenance: Applying a multi-objective perspective to an industrial case study

DKE

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Automatic query reformulations for feature location in a model-based family of software products

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Exploring New Directions in Traceability Link Recovery in Models: The Process Models Case

Raúl Lapeña

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

ICSR

Classic Software Engineering

New Opportunities for Software Reuse – 17th International Conference, ICSR 2018, Madrid, Spain, May 21-23, 2018, Proceedings

Rafael Capilla

Barbara Gallina

Carlos Cetina

2017

ESEM

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

The Influence of Requirements in Software Model Development in an Industrial Environment

Jorge Echeverría

Francisca Pérez

José Ignacio Panach

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

On the Influence of Models-to-Natural-Language Transformation in Traceability Link Recovery among Requirements and Conceptual Models

Raúl Lapeña

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

GPCE

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Analyzing the impact of natural language processing over feature location in models

Raúl Lapeña

Jaime Font

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Ontological Evolutionary Encoding to Bridge Machine Learning and Conceptual Models: Approach and Industrial Evaluation

Ana Marcén

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

OTM

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Introducing Collaboration for Locating Features in Models: Approach and Industrial Evaluation

ISD

Classic Software Engineering

Bug Management

Model-Driven Engineering

On the Influence of Modification Timespan Weightings in the Location of Bugs in Models

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

ISD

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Assessing the Performance of Automated Model Extraction Rules

Jorge Echeverría

Francisca Pérez

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Towards Feature Location in Models through a Learning to Rank Approach

Ana Marcén

Jaime Font

Óscar Pastor

Carlos Cetina

JSS

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Model-Driven Engineering

Improving feature location in long-living model-based product families designed with sustainability goals

TEC

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Achieving Feature Location in Families of Models Through the Use of Search-Based Software Engineering

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

ECMFA

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

On the Influence of Models at Run-Time Traces in Dynamic Feature Location

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Model Fragment Reuse Driven by Requirements

Raúl Lapeña

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

CLSS

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Variability Management

Leveraging variability modeling to address metamodel revisions in Model-based Software Product Lines

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

2016

MODELS

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

An Infrastructure for Generating Run-time Model Traces for Maintenance Tasks

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

MODELS

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Feature location in models through a genetic algorithm driven by information retrieval techniques

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Towards clone-and-own support: locating relevant methods in legacy products

Raúl Lapeña

Manuel Ballarín

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Improving feature location by transforming the query from natural language into requirements

SAM

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Feature Location Through the Combination of Run-Time Architecture Models and Information Retrieval

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

ESEM

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Evaluating Bug-Fixing in Software Product Lines: an Industrial Case Study

Jorge Echeverría

Francisca Pérez

Andrés Abellanas

José Ignacio Panach

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

CAiSE

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Comprehensibility of Variability in Model Fragments for Product Configuration

Jorge Echeverría

Francisca Pérez

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

ICSR

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Leveraging Feature Location to Extract the Clone-and-Own Relationships of a Family of Software Products

Manuel Ballarín

Raúl Lapeña

Carlos Cetina

ICSR

Classic Software Engineering

Search-Based Software Engineering

Feature Location in Model-Based Software Product Lines Through a Genetic Algorithm

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

SANER

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Achieving Knowledge Evolution in Dynamic Software Product Lines

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

2015

CSIMQ

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Usability Evaluation of Variability Modeling by means of Common Variability Language

Jorge Echeverría

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

Óscar Pastor

GPCE

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Addressing metamodel revisions in model-based software product lines

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

MODELS

Classic Software Engineering

Model-Driven Engineering

Variability Management

Leveraging Models at Run-Time to Retrieve Information for Feature Location

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Building software product lines from conceptualized model patterns

Jaime Font

Lorena Arcega

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

SPLC

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Automating the variability formalization of a model family by means of common variability language

Jaime Font

Manuel Ballarín

Øystein Haugen

Carlos Cetina

2013

MobiQuitous

Classic Software Engineering

Tailoring Activity Recognition to Provide Cues that Trigger Autobiographical Memory of Elderly People

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

Sensors

Classic Software Engineering

Towards Memory-Aware Services and Browsing through Lifelogging Sensing

Lorena Arcega

Jaime Font

Carlos Cetina

OEP

System, method and product for managing interactions of a person with objects

Susana Ezquerra

Carlos Cetina

Moisés Friginal

2012

SCP

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Prototyping Dynamic Software Product Lines to evaluate run-time reconfigurations

Carlos Cetina

Pau Giner

Joan Fons

Vicente Pelechano

2010

Classic Software Engineering

Variability Management

Achieving Autonomic Computing through the Use of Variability Models at Run-time

Carlos Cetina