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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a member of the GPLIS (Logic Programming & Software Engineering) Research Group of the Valencia University of Technology, within the ISSI (Software Engineering and Information Systems) subgroup.

My research interests include:

  • Empirical software engineering
  • Software quality
  • Quality of software product lines, Cost estimation in software product lines
  • integration of usability in software development
  • quality-driven model transformations
  • Functional size measurement
  • Conceptual model quality
  • Web engineering

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CURRENT RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

  • Topic: Cost Estimation in Software Product Lines / Service-Oriented Product Line Engineering
    Collaboration with: Product Line Practice Innitiative, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Topic: Usability in Model-Driven Web application development
    Collaboration with: WebML group at Politécnico di Milano, Italy
  • Topic: Evaluation of Functional Size Measurement (FSM) Methods
    Collaboration with:     Management Informatics research unit at Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde (Faculty of Economic and Applied Economic Sciences)
    Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  • Topic: Comparing Effort and Productivity between MDA-based and non MDA-based Web projects
    Collaboration with: University of Salerno, Italy & Web Engineering and Datawarehouse Research Group at University of Alicante    , Spain
  • Topic: Replication of Experiments for evaluating the Effectiveness of Software Testing Techniques
    Collaboration with:     Empirical Software Engineering Research Group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
    Context: Spanish Newtwork on Empirical Software Engineering & ISERN

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004| 2003

2012

  • 21st International World Web Conference (WWW 2012), Web Engineering Track, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012.
  • 16th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2012), Salvador-BA, Brazil, September 02-07, 2012.
  • 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2012), Software Process and Product Improvement Track, Cesme, Turkey, Sept 5-8, 2012.
  • Special Session on Measurement as a Strategy for Software Value Management (MeSVAM 2012), co-located with SEAA 2012, Cesme, Turkey, Sept 5-8, 2012.
  • 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012), Ciudad Real, Spain, May 14-15, 2012.
  • Board of Advisors Member at the International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2012), September 19, 2012, Lund, Sweden.
  • 12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012), Berlin, Germany, July 23-27, 2012.
  • 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2012), April 18-21, Porto, Portugal.
  • 13th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2012), Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012.
  • 6th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2012), May 16-18, 2012, Valencia, Spain.
  • 22nd International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM-MENSURA 2012), October 17-19, 2012, Assisi, Italy.
  • 9th Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2012), June 25-26, 2012, Rome, Italy.
  • 2nd Workshop on Managing the Client Value Creation Process in Agile Projects (VALOIR 2012), co-located with PROFES 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012.
  • 15th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2012), April 24-27, 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 11th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2012), Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil, June 11-15, 2012.

 

2011

  • 15th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011 (Associate Chair)
  • 15th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2011), Munich, Germany, August 22-26, 2011.
  • 5th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011) – Short Papers Track, Sept. 22-23 in Banff, Canada.
  • 12th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), Torre Canne, Italy, June 20-23, 2011.
  • 37th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEAA 2011), Special Session on Software Management, Oulu, Finland, August 30 to September 2, 2011.
  • 11th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011), Paphos, Cyprus, June 20-14, 2011.
  • 1st Workshop on Services, Clouds, and Alternative Design Strategies for Variant-Rich Software Systems (SCArVeS 2011), co-located with SPLC 2011, Munich, Germany, August 22, 2011.
  • 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ 2011), co-located with ESEC/FSE, September 2011, Szeged, Hungary.
  • 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2011), May 6-9, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
  • 5th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2011), May 19-21 2011, Guadeloupe - French West Indies, France.
  • 25th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2011), September 26-30, 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 5th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS 2011), September 26-30, 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2011), July 18-21, 2011, Seville, Spain.

 

2010

  • 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), DB Track, October 26-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  • 36th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEAA 2010), Special Session on Software Management, Lille, France, September 1-3, 2010.
  • 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2010), Limerick, Ireland, June 21-23, 2010.
  • 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010), Vienna, Austria, July 5-9, 2010.
  • 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2010), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 16-20, 2010.
  • 4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2010), May 19-21, 2010, Nice, France.
  • 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2010), July 22-24, 2010, Athens, Greece.
  • 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology (WEBIST 2010), Valencia, Spain, April 7-10, 2010.
  • 13th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2010), April 12-13, 2010, Cuenca, Ecuador.
  • 9th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2010), Belém, Pará, Brazil, June 07-11, 2010.
  • 10th Spanish Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACCIÓN 2010), Valencia, September 7-10, 2010.

 

2009

  • 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2009), August 24-28, 2009, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • 10th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2009), June 15-17, 2009, Oulu, Finland.
  • 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEAA 2009), Special Session on Software Management, Patras, Greece, August 27-29, 2009.
  • 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), DB Track, November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong, China.
  • 9th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2009), June 24-26, 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.
  • 18th Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2009), Track on Information Systems Engineering & Management, Paphos, Cyprus, August 25-27, 2008.
  • 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2009), April 22-24, 2009, Fes, Marocco.
  • 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), 26-29 July 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • International Workshop on Quality Assessment in Web (QAW 2009), in conjunction with ICWE 2009, San Sebastián, Spain, June 24-26, 2009.
  • International Workshop on Open Design Spaces supporting User Innovation (ODS 2009), in conjunction with the International Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD 2009), Siegen, Germany, March 2009.
  • IADIS Ibero-American Conference WWW/Internet 2009, Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, 21 - 23 October 2009.
  • 1st Quality Assessment in Web Workshop (QAW 2009), in conjunction with ICWE 2009, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2009.
  • 6th Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2009), 28-29 May 2009 in Rome, Italy.
  • 12th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2009), July 16-17, 2009, Valparaiso, Chile.
  • 13th Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases (JISBD 2009), San Sebastián, Spain, September 8-11, 2009.
  • 10th Spanish Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACCIÓN 2009), Barcelona, September 7-9, 2009.
  • 8th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2009), Ouro Preto-MG, Brazil, June 01-05, 2009.

2008

  • 2nd ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2008), October 9-10, 2008, Kaiserslautem, Germany.
  • 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), DB Track, User experience: languages, models, and interfaces area. October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley-CA, USA.
  • 9th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2008), June 23-25, 2008, Frascati, Rome, Italy.
  • 34th IEEE Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2008), Special Session on Software Management, Parma, Italy, September 3-5, 2008.
  • 2nd IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2008), April 21-22, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008), 05-08 July 2008, Porto, Portugal.
  • 17th Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2008), Track on Information Systems Engineering & Management, Paphos, Cyprus, August 25-27, 2008.
  • 5th Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2008), May 2008, Milan, Italy.
  • IEEE CEC Workshop on Business-Driven Enterprise Application Design & Evaluation, July 21, 2008, Cristal City, Washigton D. C, USA.
  • 11th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2008), September 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Adaptation and Evolution in Web Systems Engineering (AEWSE2008), In conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2008), July 14th - 18th 2008 - Yorktown Heights, New York, USA.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Web and Portals Quality (WEPOQ2008), In conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2008), July 14th - 18th 2008 - Yorktown Heights, New York, USA.
  • 7th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2008), June 02-06, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil.
  • 3rd Workshop on Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE 2008) with an emphasis on Transformations and Tools, 6-7 November 2008, Budva, Montenegro.
  • 9th Spanish Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACCIÓN 2008), Albacete, June 9-12, 2008.
  • 3rd Portuguese Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACÇÃO 2008), Évora, Portugal, October 2008.

2007

  • ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007), Madrid, Spain, September 20-21, 2007.
  • IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2007), April 23-26, 2007, Quarzazate, Morocco.
  • 10th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2007), 17-18 May 2007, Toronto, Canada.
  • 12th Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases (JISBD 2007), Zaragoza, September 11-14, 2007.
  • 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), 22-25 July 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 4th Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2007), 09-11 May 2007, Rome, Italy.
  • 5th IEEE Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2007), October 31st – November 2nd, 2007, Santiago, Chile.
  • IADIS Ibero-american Conference on WWW/Internet 2007 (CIAWI 2007), 07-08 Octubre 2007, Vila Real, Portugal.
  • 6th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2007), June 25 to June 29, Porto de Galinhas- PE, Brazil.
  • Workshop on Web Quality, Verification and Validation (WQVV 2007), co-located with the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2007), 16-20, Como, Italy.
  • 4th Experimental Software Engineering Latin America Workshop (ESELAW 2007), São Paulo, Brazil, December, 2007.
  • Workshop on Measuring Requirements for Project and Product Success (MeReP 2007), co-located with the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA 2007), November 5-7, 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

2006

  • 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September 21-22, 2006.
  • 6th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (CADUI 2006), Bucharest, Romania, June 5-8, 2006.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance (SOQUA 2006), co-located with ACM SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14, Portland, Oregon, USA, November, 2006.
  • 4th IEEE Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2006), October 2006, Cholula, Mexico.
  • 5th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2006), May 29 to June 02, Vila Velha - ES, Brazil
  • 2nd Workshop on Web Measurement and Metrics (WMM06), July 11, 2006, to be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE06), Palo Alto, California, USA.
  • IADIS Ibero-american Conference on WWW/Internet 2006 (CIAWI 2006), 06-07 October 2006, Murcia, Spain.
  • 3rd Software Measurement European Forum (SMEF 2006), 10-12 May 2006, Rome, Italy.
  • International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA 2006), 6-8 November, 2006, Cádiz, Spain.
  • 9th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2006), 13-14 July 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2nd Portuguese Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACÇÃO 2006), October 16-18, 2007, Braga, Portugal.
  • 3rd Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESEIW 2006), co-located with the Experimental Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW 2006), September, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2005

  • 3rd IEEE Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2005), October 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentine.
  • IADIS Ibero-american Conference on WWW/Internet 2005 (CIAWI2005), 18-19 October 2005, Lisbon - Portugal.
  • 1st Workshop on Web Measurement and Metrics (WMM05) to be held in Sydney, Australia on July 26,
    2005 in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2005).
  • International COST 294 Workshop on User Interface Quality Models (UIQM 2005) during 10th International IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2005), Rome, Italy, September 12-16, 2005.
  • 4th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2005), June 2005, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
  • 2nd Software Measurement European Forum (SEMF 2005), 2-4 March 2005, Rome, Italy.
  • 2nd Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESEIW 2005), held jointly with the 19th Brazilian Software Engineering Symposium (SBES 2005), October 2005 – Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

2004

  • 5th National Congress of Software Metrics and Process (CNPMSI 2004), 17-18 November, 2004, Madrid, Spain.

2003

  • 1st Latin American Web Congress (La-Web 2003), posters committee member, Santiago, Chile, November 10-12, 2003.

 

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JOURNAL/BOOK CHAPTERS EXTERNAL REVIEWER

 

EVENTS ORGANIZATION

 

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

 

CONFERENCE ADDITIONAL REVIEWER

  • Reviewer at 8th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2009), Cambridge, UK, 14-17 September 2009.
  • Reviewer at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008), Paris, France, 14-17 December 2008.
  • Reviewer at 7th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2007), Portland, Oregon, USA, 11-12 October 2007.
  • Reviewer at 4th International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance (SOQUA 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4, 2007.
  • Reviewer at 6th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2006), Beijing, China, October 26-28, 2006.
  • Reviewer at 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2006), San Francisco Bay, USA, July 5-7, 2006.
  • Reviewer at IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2006), 9-13 July 2006, ETS-Downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada, Track on System Simulation & Software Development.
  • Reviewer at 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2005), Klagenfurt, Austria.
  • Reviewer at 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2005), Porto, Portugal, 13-17 June, 2005.
  • Reviewer at 8th Ibero-american Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Software Environments (IDEAS 2005), Valparaíso, Chile, 02-06 May, 2005.
  • Reviewer at 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004), Zaragoza, Spain, 30 August to 03 September.
  • Reviewer at Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2004), Brasília, Brazil, 31 May to 04 July 2004.
  • Reviewer at International Workshop on Web Information System Modeling (WISM 2004), Riga, Latvia, 8 June 2004.
  • Reviwer at Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WebMídia 2003), Salvador-BA, Brasil, November 3-6, 2003.
  • Reviewer at 23th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC 2003), Chile, 2003.
  • Reviewer at Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQ 2003), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil.
  • Reviewer at 4th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), Praga, Czech Republic, 01-05 September, 2003.
  • Reviewer at 2nd Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality (IWCQM 2003), to be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'03) Evanston, Illinois, USA, October 2003.
  • Reviewer at 2nd International Conference in Web Engineering (ICWE 2002), Santa Fe, Argentina, 2002.
  • Reviewer at 5th Ibero-american Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Software Environments (IDEAS 2002), La Habana, Cuba, 2002.

RESEARCH STAYS

Visiting Scientist at Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, USA, from November 2010 to February 2011. Supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation under the José Castillejo program.

Postdoctoral research stay at Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, December 2006 to February 2007. Supported by Viverrectorate of Research, Development and Innovation of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the MAUSE project (as a short-term scientific mission).

Pre/postdoctoral research stay at Department of Management Information, Operations Management and Technology Policy - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, organized by Prof. Geert Poels, October-November 2003, January and June 2004, and September 2006. Supported by Ghent University.

Research visit to Informatics Department at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil (with Prof. Daniel Schwabe), April 2002. Support of the WEST (Web-Oriented Software Technology) Project.

Research visit to School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the La Pampa University, Argentine (with Prof. Luis Olsina), March 2002. Support of the WEST (Web-Oriented Software Technology) Project.

 

AWARDS

  • Bancaja Award for the co-supervision of the Master's thesis titled “Web Portal for the Estimation of Software Projects", Escola Tècnica Superior d'Informàtica Aplicada, Valencia University of Technology, 2004.
  • Predoctoral Research Fellow (FPI fellowship), granted by the Valencia University of Technology, 2000-2002.
  • Assistant Research Fellowship (DTI-7G), granted by the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq), 1996-1998.

 

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