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The project has been in development for more than 6 years in collaboration with different German and Austrian universities. University of Seville professor and Diverso Lab coordinator David Benavides has led a consortium that has been working since 2018 and has had meetings in France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Luxembourg or Austria, in the context of MODEVAR, to develop a common variability language. The language has been named UVL: Universal Variability Language and promises to be a milestone in the development of software product lines. UVL allows modeling variability in software systems, but its applications are beyond software. UVL assists in the production of highly configurable systems such as Android, Chrome or artificial intelligence systems. These models are used both academically and industrially for the study and production of highly configurable…

On Tuesday 4th of March at 9:30AM, our team will hold a seminary titled "¿Cómo funcionan los LLMs? Una explicación simple y accesible", which will take place in classroom A2.11 at ETSII. The seminar wil be presented by our colleague Professor Jesús Moreno, and it will feature a simple and comprensible explanation on how large language models (LLMs) work, addressing key concepts with the help of practical examples to understand how these models are built and how they are used in current technological applications. The event is aimed at students, researchers and professionals who are interested in understanding the way AI assistants like ChatGPT, DeepSeek or Claude work. High-level concepts such as transformer architecture, self-supervised learning and reinforcement learning will be touched upon during the seminar, without getting into technicalities…

On Tuesday 11th of February, our team will hold a seminary titled "Desarrollo web con Webpack y otras herramientas en un framework SPL", which will take place in classroom A2.11 at ETSII. The seminary will be presented by our colleague David Romero, and it will consist of a practical analysis of the integration of Webpack among other key tools related to Web Development within the context of Software Product Lines (SPL). It will use UVLHub, a repository for feature models defined in UVL as a case study. The event is aimed at students, researchers and software developers interested in modular architectures, workflow optimization with Webpack and best practices in SPL environments. Throughout the session, aspects such as advanced Webpack configuration, the use of complementary tools, and maintenance strategies in a…

This week, the 19th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS25) has taken place in Rennes, France, and one of our members had the opportunity to attend the conference and present a new paper. The paper, titled UVL web-based editing and analysis with flamapy.ide is authored by Francisco Sebastian Benitez, José A. Galindo, David Romero Organvídez and David Benavides, and presents flamapy.ide, a new web tool based on the flamapy ecosystem that allows users to create, modify, visualize and analyze feature models defined in UVL (Universal Variability Language). One of the key-defining features of flamapy.ide lies in its ability to perform feature model analysis operation directly on the user's browser, without the need for a backend server. Dr José A. Galindo participated in the conference and gave…

Today our group has had the opportunity to visit the Aula del Futuro, located in the Centro del Profesorado in Seville, and experience its innovations in education through an interactive process led by Mariano Real. Aula del Futuro is a project coordinated by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado (INTEF) in collaboration with Spanish autonomous communities. Its aim is to present a more flexible learning space, in combination with technologies such as robotics, coding on Scratch or 3D-printing to improve teaching and learning processes through active methodologies. In this way, it presents a reconfigurable classroom space divided into six areas: Investiga (Research), Explora (Explore), Interactúa (Interact), Desarrolla (Develop), Crea (Create) and Presenta (Present). These spaces promote and stimulate the teaching and learning processes, making the…

On December 17th our team had the pleasure attend a seminary presented by our colleague Jorge García Gutiérrez and Soumeya Zerabi from LISIA Laboratory (Laboratoire Informatique en Science de Données et Intelligence Artificielle). The aim of the seminary was to introduce our team to the work and research carried out at LISIA Laboratory from Abdelhamid MEHRI - Constantine 2 University. For this purpose, Soumeya Zerabi gave a presentation on their historical background, members and current research projects. On behalf of our Team, Jorge García also gave a presentation on the history, work and main lines of research of Diverso Lab. Thanks to this seminary, both teams got to learn about each other, opening doors to possible collaboration on future projects. More information about LISIA Laboratory can be found here.

Our colleague and professor Jesús Moreno takes part in a project that will provide Artificial Intelligence training to many workers who come from a migrant background in order to help them transition into new labor sectors. The non-profit organization Programamos has been selected by the Center For Public Impact for receiving funding from Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund: Europe, as well as specific training to provide workers from vulnerable groups with AI knowledge and tools to boost their career development. The project will help about a hundred people who belong to racial and migrant minorities in Seville, with a special focus on those who work in agricultural, tourism and hospitality sectors. Programamos will also count with the help of other local organizations, such as Sevilla Negra , to improve job opportunities…

The Stanford University has published its 7th update for "Ranking of the World Scientists: World's Top 2% Scientists", which analyses and ranks the impact of the work from researchers worldwide for 2023, and is considered as one of the most influential in the world. This time, we are thrilled to share that our colleague Dr. David Benavides has been included in the ranking, as one of the top scientists in the Software Engineering field. You can access the full ranking in this link. From Diverso Lab, we want to congratulate our fellow member and co-founder of the lab for his new recognition. We are proud of his commitment to research, and we are excited for what is next to come! Congratulations, Prof. Benavides