David Romero Organvídez Defends His Doctoral Thesis on the UVL Ecosystem
On 14 July 2026, David Romero Organvídez successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Seville, earning his PhD with International Doctorate Mention with the maximum grade. The thesis, titled "UVLHub: An Open Science Ecosystem for the Universal Variability Language", was supervised by Dr. David Benavides and Dr. José A. Galindo, both members of Diverso Lab.The work addresses a long-standing problem in software product line engineering: feature models, the de facto standard for representing variability and commonalities in software systems, have often been scattered across private repositories, incompatible formats, or discontinued projects. This dispersion has made it difficult for researchers and practitioners to find, reuse, and study these artefacts.At the core of the thesis is UVLHub, a repository of feature models built on the Universal Variability Language (UVL), a…
