11Sep 2026 by diversolab No Comments
Salvador Muñoz Publishes on Smart Governance in Digital Government: Research and Practice

Salvador Muñoz Publishes on Smart Governance in Digital Government: Research and Practice

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Salvador Muñoz Hermoso has had his paper "Exploring Smart Governance Challenges in Local Governments: Insights from a Delphi Study in Spain" accepted for publication in Digital Government: Research and Practice, the ACM journal devoted to digital government and public sector transformation. The manuscript was accepted as a Research Paper in its current form. The work is co-authored with Miguel A. Olivero, Francisco J. Domínguez-Mayo, and David Benavides.The paper is a result of the doctoral research that Salvador carried out at the University of Seville, where his industrial doctorate focused on e-collaboration and smart governance. He defended his thesis in September 2025. Throughout that research he combined academic work with more than two decades of professional experience in the development and management of electronic administration and local government projects, a background…
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15Jul 2026 by diversolab No Comments
David Romero Organvídez Defends His Doctoral Thesis on the UVL Ecosystem

David Romero Organvídez Defends His Doctoral Thesis on the UVL Ecosystem

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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…
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10Jul 2026 by diversolab No Comments
From Data to Irrigation: SensOlive’s Tools for Optimizing Deficit Irrigation

From Data to Irrigation: SensOlive’s Tools for Optimizing Deficit Irrigation

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The foundation of irrigation scheduling in SensOlive (PLSQ_00162).Project funded by the Junta de Andalucía. What we measure and how: the tools and indicators we use for our objectivesIn our first installment, we took you on a visit to La Hampa. Today we get a little closer to show you the tools we work with and the factors we take into account to understand, day by day, what the olive grove needs. Optimizing deficit irrigation isn't just about watering less: it's about watering with a purpose, and to do that we need to know precisely how each tree responds. In this video we show you the continuous measurement indicators we rely on, along with other measures we use to verify them. Along the way you'll see:How trunk diameter variation is measured…
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26Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments
Deep Learning Methods for EEG-Based Speech Classification and Decoding: A PRISMA Review

Deep Learning Methods for EEG-Based Speech Classification and Decoding: A PRISMA Review

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We are pleased to share that Asma Sbaih, together with Jorge García-Gutiérrez, Megha Bhushan and David Benavides, has published a new article entitled "Deep Learning Methods for EEG-Based Speech Classification and Decoding: A PRISMA Review", now available in open access in Computer Speech & Language (Elsevier).The article presents a systematic review, conducted following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, of deep learning methods applied to speech-related EEG (electroencephalography) and intracranial EEG (iEEG) processing, covering studies published between 2018 and 2025. After searching across Scopus, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, Web of Science and PubMed, the authors identified 1,148 records, of which 80 peer-reviewed studies were included following duplicate removal, screening and eligibility assessment.The review organizes the literature by task type (speech classification, spectrogram reconstruction and speech synthesis), neural signal type (non-invasive EEG versus invasive…
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18Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments
José Manuel Sánchez Presents SensOlive at SISTEDES 2026

José Manuel Sánchez Presents SensOlive at SISTEDES 2026

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SensOlive brings software variability and digital twins to one of today’s most urgent agricultural challenges: efficient irrigation in olive groves. During SISTEDES 2026, held in Alicante from 16 to 18 June, our colleague José Manuel Sánchez Ruiz presented the work titled “Proyecto - SENSOLIVE: Variability Management and Digital Twins in Deficit Irrigation of Olive Groves”. The conference brought together the Spanish software engineering community and included JISBD, JCIS and PROLE as its main scientific tracks. The article was authored by José Manuel Sánchez Ruiz, Francisco Sebastián Benítez Ruiz Díaz, Noelia López Durán, Miguel Ángel Olivero González, Francisco José Domínguez Mayo, Marta Sánchez Piñero and David Benavides Cuevas. Managing variability in precision irrigation The SensOlive project addresses a key problem in modern agriculture: how to support deficit irrigation strategies in olive…
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18Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments
Francisco Sebastián Benítez Presents a Tool for Variability Management in Irrigation and Agriculture

Francisco Sebastián Benítez Presents a Tool for Variability Management in Irrigation and Agriculture

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DiversoLab continues exploring how software variability can support smarter and more adaptable agricultural systems.At SISTEDES 2026, our colleague Francisco Sebastián Benítez presented the work titled “Herramienta - A Tool for Variability Management in Irrigation and Agriculture”. The conference took place in Alicante from 16 to 18 June 2026 and gathered researchers and professionals from the Spanish software engineering and software development technologies community.The article was authored by Francisco Sebastián Benítez, José Manuel Sánchez Ruiz, David Romero Organvídez, Miguel Ángel Olivero, José A. Galindo, Francisco José Domínguez-Mayo and David Benavides.A tool-oriented contribution for smart agricultureThe presented work focuses on the development of a tool for managing variability in irrigation and agricultural contexts. This is a relevant challenge because agricultural systems are highly configurable: crops, sensors, irrigation strategies, environmental conditions and user…
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18Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments
DiversoLab at SISTEDES 2026: Connecting with the Spanish Software Engineering Community

DiversoLab at SISTEDES 2026: Connecting with the Spanish Software Engineering Community

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From 16 to 18 June 2026, members of DiversoLab attended the Jornadas de la Sociedad de Ingeniería de Software y Tecnologías de Desarrollo de Software, held in Alicante and organised by the University of Alicante. The event brought together researchers and professionals working on software engineering, databases, service engineering, programming languages and related areas. For DiversoLab, participating in SISTEDES is especially relevant because the conference provides a unique opportunity to learn about the state of the art in the community, exchange ideas with other research groups and identify new scientific challenges in software engineering. SISTEDES 2026 included the XXX Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos, the XXI Jornadas de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Servicios and the XXV Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes. A meeting point for research,…
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05May 2026 by diversolab No Comments
DIVERSO LAB’s Latest Advances in AI, Software Product Lines, and Smart Agriculture

DIVERSO LAB’s Latest Advances in AI, Software Product Lines, and Smart Agriculture

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Following the recent participation of our researchers Francisco José Domínguez-Mayo and Francisco Sesbastián Benítez  at the FOSD (Feature-Oriented Software Development) Meeting—a prominent international gathering dedicated to advancing research in software variability and software product lines, see more here —we held an internal seminar at our facilities. Upon their return, Francisco J. and Francisco S. shared their experiences and the presentations they delivered at the conference with the entire DIVERSO LAB team from the University of Seville. This knowledge-sharing session focused on the application of software engineering and Artificial Intelligence to the agricultural sector.Towards the Systematic Engineering of Intelligent SystemsThe first presentation was given by Francisco J. Domínguez-Mayo, who introduced the line of work titled "Toward an Innovation-Oriented SPL Methodology for On-Premise Intelligent Systems". During his exposition, he emphasized the need…
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18Feb 2026 by diversolab No Comments
Software Variability as a new Computational Thinking dimension

Software Variability as a new Computational Thinking dimension

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A new Open Educational Resource (OER) has been released to help bring software variability — an emerging and research-supported dimension of computational thinking — into the classroom.The resource encourages students to move beyond creating isolated programs and instead learn how to reason about families of related solutions through configurable systems.Designed mainly for teachers and students in secondary education and vocational training, the OER connects computational thinking with everyday situations such as customizing a smartphone or choosing options in a video game.Through interactive activities, modeling exercises, and programming tasks, learners explore how shared structures can generate multiple variations.The resource is organized into five modules, including an introduction to variability concepts, modeling with diagrams and the Universal Variability Language (UVL), metaprogramming using Snap!, a configurable maze game project, and a gamified assessment…
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22Jul 2024 by user No Comments

New book release about Feature Models!

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We've been given a pair of good news this last week regarding our lab cofounder Dr. David Benavides, who has been elected as Coordinador del programa de doctorado de ingeniería informática de la Universidad de Sevilla (Computer Engineering PhD Degree Coordinator), as well as given the greenlight from Springer for his first book publishing. And it gets even better than that: it's open access, what basically means it's free! Feature Models: AI-Driven Design, Analysis and Applications will surely clarify all concerns about variability systems and its modeling and restriction creation using Artificial Intelligence, as well as provide a basic introduction to analysis and notation. Congratulations Dr. Benavides for your new book and position!
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