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29Sep 2026 by diversolab No Comments

David Benavides delivers a keynote at ICI2ST 2026 in Quito on the relationship between AI and Software Engineering

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Prof. David Benavides, director of Diverso Lab, travelled to Quito, Ecuador, to deliver a keynote at the Sixth International Conference on Information Systems and Software Technologies (ICI2ST 2026), held from 23 to 25 September 2026 at the Hemiciclo Politécnico. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Systems Engineering of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), together with a consortium of Ecuadorian and Colombian universities.His keynote, "Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering: Friends or Enemies?", addressed one of the most pressing questions in the discipline today. Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way software is conceived, built and maintained, raising both opportunities and concerns across the community. The talk explored whether these two fields are competing or complementary, and what role software engineering must play in ensuring that AI-based systems are reliable,…

11Sep 2026 by diversolab No Comments

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…

17Jul 2026 by diversolab No Comments

Six Diverso Lab Contributions Accepted at VARIABILITY 2026

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Diverso Lab is proud to share that six of our contributions have been accepted for VARIABILITY 2026, the International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration. This first edition of the conference brings together three long-standing venues in the field, SPLC, VaMoS and ICSR, and will take place in Limassol, Cyprus, from 29 September to 2 October 2026.Our accepted work spans the main track, the journal-first track and the MODEVAR workshop, and reflects the breadth of our research on variability modelling, automated analysis and the Universal Variability Language (UVL).Main TrackAutomated Analysis of UVL using Satisfiability Modulo Theories, by José Miguel Horcas, Francisco S. Benítez, José A. Galindo and David Benavides. This paper presents our advances in using the Z3 solver for the automated analysis of feature models,…

15Jul 2026 by diversolab No Comments

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…

02Jul 2026 by diversolab No Comments

David Benavides on How AI Is Reshaping Software Development in 2026

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David Benavides, professor and coordinator of the PhD program in Computer Engineering at the University of Seville, shares his perspective on the state of software development in 2026 in a feature published by Computerworld España.Benavides describes artificial intelligence as the biggest umbrella driving change across the sector, highlighting the shift from AI copilots that simply complete code to agentive AI systems capable of receiving instructions and orchestrating entire workflows. He also points to "vibe coding" as a parallel trend, one that lets non-engineers produce software through conversational interaction with AI systems, distinguishing it from the more technical, AI-assisted engineering carried out by professional developers.On the technical side, Benavides discusses the growing adoption of WebAssembly, which allows software components to run directly in the browser and distributes computing costs to the…

26Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments

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…

22Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments

Structured knowledge for multi-agent academic support: Diverso Lab at the UCA Doctoral Consortium

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Noelia López Durán presents her doctoral research at the 6th Doctoral Consortium in Computer Science (University of Cádiz) Our colleague Noelia López Durán recently took part in the 6th Doctoral Consortium in Computer Science of the University of Cádiz, presenting her ongoing doctoral research, "Structured knowledge modeling for multi-agent academic support systems". Representing Diverso Lab, and as part of a joint doctoral collaboration between the University of Seville and the University of Cádiz, Noelia shared the latest advances of her work on intelligent academic support systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and structured knowledge representations. Her proposal addresses one of the main challenges of applying LLMs in universities: ensuring that generated responses align with institutional regulations, degree requirements and each student's specific academic situation. To achieve…

20Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments

Diverso Days 2026

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Diverso Lab is organising Diverso Days 2026, a day open to the public that will take place on Thursday, 25 June 2026, from 9:15 to 14:00, in Room A2.11 at the School of Computer Engineering (Universidad de Sevilla).The programme will open with a welcome session, led by David Benavides (9:15 to 9:30), followed by the talk "Using local LLMs for DSL generation", presented by José Á. Galindo (9:30 to 10:30).At 11:00, the panel "Technological sovereignty, is it possible?" will take place, featuring Pablo Neira and David Gálvez (11:00 to 12:00). The day will close with the session "SPLENT and the UVL ecosystem", led by David Romero (12:30 to 14:00), for which attendees are advised to bring a laptop.Diverso Days 2026 is held in collaboration with the Universidad de Sevilla and the School of Computer Engineering.

18Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments

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…

18Jun 2026 by diversolab No Comments

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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