About Me

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I am Associate Professor (accredited to Full Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. I received my Ph.D in Computer Science from the UPV in 2004. Previously, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, USA (2010 and 2012), the Université catholique de Louvain , Belgium (2007 and 2017), and the Ghent University, Belgium (2006). My main areas of expertise include software quality, quality assurance in model-driven engineering, the empirical assessment of software modeling approaches and the integration of usability/UX into software development. I have been the Principal Researcher in eighteen research projects/contracts involving academic and industrial partners. In particular, I lead the MULTIPLE (Mutimodeling approach for quality-aware software product lines) project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation with close collaboration with the Rolls-Royce Software Centre of Excellence. More recently, I has led the Spanish Network of Excellence on Software Quality and Sustainability, and the Adapt@Cloud project aimed at providing a user-centred framework for supporting the dynamic adaptation of cloud-based systems. I have (co)authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications. From 2011 to 2017 I was the Spanish Editor of ERCIM News, a scientific magazine of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. Currently, I am Associate Editor for the IEEE Software magazine and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) journal. I also serve as Editor-in-Chief for the TOSEM Continuous Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering, and as Co-editor of the  IEEE Software Practitioner’s Digest department. Additionally, I am on the Editorial Board of the Springer journal Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) and on the Advisory Editorial Board of the Wiley Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE). I have also served as General Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2014), PC-Co Chair of MODELS 2020 and Steering Committee Chair and Vice-Chair for the MODELS conference.

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         Lastest News:

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• April 2023: I have been selected as an expert evaluator for the EIC Pathfinder OPEN 2023 call, European Innovation Council - the Europe’s flagship innovation programme of the European Commission.

• February 2023: I joined TOSEM as Guest Editor-in-Chief for a new Continuous Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering. Download the flyer here.

• January 2023: I have been invited to serve as co-editor of the IEEE Software Practitioner’s Digest column.

• June 2022: I have been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

• March 2022: I have been included in a ranking of the Best Women Scientists in Spain elaborated by the CSIC , being the 12 out of 53 women scientists of the Universitat Politècnica de València included in this ranking (and the first place out of 10 scientists of the Department of Computer Systems and Computation - DSIC). 

• February 2019: I have been selected among the “50 most Distinguished Women Scholars at the UPV” for my scientific contributions (4 faculty members from the Department of Computer Science). See news at the UPV website and Levante.

• August 2018: I have been selected as an Associate Editor for IEEE Software through an open call that received 110 applications! 

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Current research projects:

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• AEQUITAS: Assessment and Engineering of Equitable, Unbiased, Impartial and Trustworthy AI Systems, Granted by the European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme (Horizon-RIA), 2022/11 to 2025-10. 

• AIDEAS: AI Driven industrial Equipment product life cycle boosting Agility, Sustainability and Resilience, Granted by the European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme (Horizon-IA), 2022/10 to 2025-09.

• SINCOE: Supporting Innovation Competence Development in Online Education, Granted by the European Commission, Erasmus + Finish National Agency for Education, 2022/07 to 2025/06.

• AKILA: User Interface Adaptation through User-Experience-based Reinforcement Learning, Granted by the Generalitat Valenciana, 2022/01 to 2024/12.

• CALESI: Spanish Network of Excelence on Software Quality and Sustainability, Granted by Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2023/06 to 2025/06.

• TASOVA-PLUS: Spanish Network on New Trends in Software Architecture and Variability, Granted by Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2023/06 to 2025/06.

 

Recent/Forthcoming events I am involved in:

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•  CHASE 2024: 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, co-located with ICSE 2024, 14-15 April 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

• MODELS 2023: ACM/IEEE 26th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 1-6 October 2023, Västerås, Sweden.

• ESEM 2023: 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, October 26-27, 2023, New Orleans, LA, United States.

• EASE 2023: Int ernational Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 14-16 June 2023, Oulu, Finland.

•  MODELS 2022: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 23-28 October 2022, Montreal, Canada.

• ICSE 2022:  44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering,  May 21 - 29, 2022, Pittsburgh, USA.

• ASE 2022:  37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 26 September - 1 October 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

• ICSE 2021:  43th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering,  May 22 - 30, 2021, Madrid, Spain

• ISD 2021:  29th International Conference on Information Systems Development, 8-10 September 2021, Valencia, Spain.

• MODELS 2021: ACM/IEEE 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 10-15 October 2021, Fukuoka, Japan.

• JISBD 2021:  25th Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases, 22-24 September 2021, Málaga, Spain.

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Recent special issues of journals:

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• We are soliciting papers for the Special Issue on "From Idea to Impact: Connecting Research and Practice", IEEE Software, C, Ebert, S. Abrahao and V.  S. Mani (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society, March/April 2024 (Deadline: June 30, 2023).

• Research Trends in Engineering Software-Intensive Systems: Journal of Systems and Software, A. Martini, M. Wimmer, M. Felderer, S. Abrahão (Eds.), Elsevier, 2022.

• Special Section on the Best Papers from 23rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2020), Abrahão S., De Lara J., Sahraoui H. A., Syriani E. (Eds.), Software and Systems Modeling, Springer, 2002.

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Recent books:

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• Abrahão S., Calero C. (Eds) Quality and Sustainability of Information Systems in Practice. RA-MA, 2022, 588 p. (in Spanish)

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Further info:

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• My CV(Full version, in English)

• My CV (Short version, in Spanish)

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