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Eighth Madrilenian Seminar on Software Research
Madrid, Spain. October 30th 2025
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.
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.
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote
by Stefano Zacchiroli
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Morning Session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote
by Minghui Zhou
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Session
The event will be hosted at the Sede Madrid Argüelles (calle Quintana) of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, in particular, in following room: Sala de Actos. See below a map with the location (how to get there).