MadSESE

Call for Participation

The Eighth MadSESE research seminar aims to gather researchers and practitioners from Madrid and neighboring regions to meet and to share their interest in the field of software research. If you intend to publish in venues and journals such as TSE, JEMSE, ICSE, FSE, ICSME, ESEM, SANER or MSR, you are more than welcome to participate!

Presenting: Anyone active in the field are invited to submit an extended abstract (one to two pages) of a talk (to be sent before October 17th to grex@gsyc.urjc.es). Based on these extended abstracts, the organization will construct an exciting program. The length of the talks will depend on the number of submissions.

Attending: Attendance to MadSESE seminars is free (as in gratis). Registration is required to organize lunch which is covered by the organization. If you plan to attend, please send an email to (jose.gcabanas at urjc.es) before October 24th.

The Eighth MadSESE is sponsored by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (as entidad organizadora), in particular by the Vicerrectorado de Comunidad, Campus Cultura y Deporte.

Invited Speakers

For the Eighth MadSESE, we are delighted to have the following renowned keynote speakers:

Stefano Zacchiroli is Full Professor at LTCI, Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris

Stefano Zacchiroli is full professor of computer science at Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris. His current research interests span digital commons, open source software engineering, computer security, and the software supply chain. He is co-founder and CTO of Software Heritage, the largest public archive of software source code. He is a Debian developer since 2001, where he served as Debian project leader from 2010 to 2013. He is a former board director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award.

Minghui Zhou is Professor of Computer Science, Peking University

Minghui Zhou is a Tenured Full Professor of PKU’s School of Computer Science, Software Engineering Institute. She leads Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab working on software engineering, software data analytics, intelligent recommender, and open source digital sociology. She is also vice dean of the School of Computer Science, PKU.

Final Programme

9:15 - 9:30 Welcome
Gregorio Robles (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote: "Building a Safer Open Source Supply Chain with Software Heritage"
Stefano Zacchiroli (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 Morning Session

"A Fully Stateless Multi-Agent Architecture for Automated Program Repair"
Marcos Fuster-Pena, David de-Fitero-Domínguez, Jesús-Ángel del-Hoyo-Gabaldón, Antonio García-Cabot, Eva García-López (Universidad de Alcalá)

"State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality"
Facundo Molina, Nazareno Aguirre, Alessandra Gorla (IMDEA Software)

"On the Data Complexity of Defect Prediction Datasets"
Daniel Rodríguez (Universidad de Alcalá)

"Automated Exploration of Conversational Agents for the Synthesis of Testing Profiles"
Iván Sotillo del Horno, Alejandro del Pozzo, Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

"An Agent-Based Framework for the Automatic Generation of Valid SysML v2 Models"
Jose Olivert-Iserte, Eduardo Cibrián, Juan Llorens, Jose María Álvarez-Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Keynote: "Open Source Software Digital Sociology"
Minghui Zhou (Peking University)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Session

"Conflict and Dependency Graphs from Highly Configurable Software Systems"
Rubén Heradio (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

"How Computational Thinking Skills Influence Design Quality in Scratch: An Empirical Analysis of Code Smells"
Ricardo Hidalgo Aragón, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Gregorio Robles (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

"GrimoireLab" (Lightning talk)
Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar and Miguel Ángel Fernández (Bitergia)

"Navigating a Changing Landscape: Lessons from Replicating TDD for LLMs" (Lightning talk)
Giovanni Rosa, Jesús M. González-Barahona (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

"Introducing the SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: a Personal View" (Lightning talk)
Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix Consulting)

"Open Code and Open Data for Open Source" (Lightning talk)
Philippe Ombredanne (AboutCode)

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