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New international publication in quantum computing by the ALARCOS group

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, researcher from the ALARCOS group at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), has participated as a co-author in the article «Operational Viability ...

The UCLM, recognised as Celonis Academic Excellence Centre for 2026-2027 with the participation of researchers from the Alarcos Group

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has been selected by Celonis as one of its 20 Academic Excellence Centres worldwide for the 2026-2027 academic year, forming part of...

New Master's Thesis on Detection of Quantum Software Patterns Using Machine Learning

Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez-Castillo has supervised the Master's Thesis of Alejandro Ramiro Jiménez Batuecas, titled «Study on the Detection of Patterns in Quantum Software ...

Coral Calero addresses the role of AI in research at the XIV National Conference of Doctoral Schools

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Coral Calero participated in the XIV National Conference of Directors of Doctoral Schools (CDED), delivering the lecture 'Research + AI, opportunity or ...

Ismael Caballero gives a class on data quality in the Master's in Computer Engineering at the University of Valladolid

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Ismael Caballero gave a class on 20 October titled 'Data Quality Management' in the subject 'Software Quality: Certification and Quality Audits of Processes, Systems, Data and Services...

Bringing quantum computing closer to ICT professionals

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleagues Ignacio García-Rodríguez, Macario Polo, Manuel A. Serrano, José A. Cruz-Lemus and Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, together with researchers from the Quercus group of the ...

Coral Calero, recognised among the «Green IT Top Leaders 2026» for her contribution to sustainable IT

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Coral Calero has been awarded by the Institute of Data Science (DASCIN) as one of the people included in the list «Green IT Top Leaders 2026». This list ...

Aurora Vizcaíno and Javier Rodríguez analyse the challenges of hybrid work in software engineering

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleagues Aurora Vizcaíno and Javier Rodríguez have published the article titled 'The Impact of Hybrid Work Challenges on Software Engineers and Strategies to Mitigate Them' in the ...

José Antonio Cruz-Lemus participates in Oporto at the European summit on the future of Informatics

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague José Antonio Cruz-Lemus attended between the 26th and 28th of October at the European Informatics Leaders Summit 2026 (ECSS 2026), organised by Informatics Europe in the ...

Ismael Caballero participates in the Seventh Plenary Session of CEN/CENELEC JTC25 on data spaces in Oslo

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Ismael Caballero participated from 14 to 16 October in the seventh Plenary Session of the CEN/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 25) on Data Management...

José Antonio Cruz Lemus coordinates a CoLab + Hackathon to bring healthcare services closer to elderly patients in rural areas

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague José Antonio Cruz Lemus has coordinated the CoLab + Hackathon 'Humanising the gap between the rural patient and their healthcare services' between the 19th and 21st of October of ...

Marcela Genero participates in the expert panel of the IDoESE 2026 Doctoral Symposium

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Marcela Genero has participated in the expert panel of the International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2026), held ...

Francisco Ruiz explains how to apply data analytics to improve health services in rural areas.

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Francisco Ruiz has delivered the lecture 'Demographic Dispersion of Ciudad Real: Data and Challenges' within the event Colab+Hackathon: Humanizing the gap between the rural patient and their health services...

Marcela Genero participates in the annual meeting of ISERN in Munich on behalf of the UCLM

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Marcela Genero participated from 4 to 6 October 2026 in the activities of the annual meeting of ISERN (International Software Engineering Research ...

Our colleague Mario Piattini, among the most cited scientists in the world in the Stanford and Elsevier 2026 ranking

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100

Our colleague Mario Piattini, professor of Languages and Computer Systems at the Higher School of Informatics of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, appears in the 2026 edition of ...

José Antonio Ortega Barros defends his doctoral thesis on Adaptive Portfolio Management

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On 16 October, José Antonio Ortega Barros successfully defended his doctoral thesis, carried out under the joint supervision of Prof. Óscar Pedreira from the Universidade da Coruña and our

Ismael Caballero participates in the Round Table “The War of Data” during the II Days of Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Field

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On 22 September, our colleague Ismael Caballero participated in the Round Table “The War of Data” held in the context of the “II Days of Responsible Artificial Intelligence ...

I Datathon of Process Intelligence UCLM–Celonis

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Ricardo Pérez and Félix O. García, along with Luis de la Ossa, on behalf of the UCLM, and Eugenio Hernández, on behalf of Celonis, participate in the organisation of the I

Eighth edition of the Own Course on Government and Data Management

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Ismael Caballero and Ricardo Pérez are organising the Eighth Edition of the Own Course on Government and Data Management, a training initiative developed in...

Ismael Caballero participates in the course “Registration of agricultural holdings and digital farm notebook” of the JCCM

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On 15 September, our colleague Ismael Caballero gave the class “Interoperability of registers” in the course “Registration of agricultural holdings and digital farm notebook of...

The JCCM and the Green Team of the Alarcos Group sign an agreement to promote the sustainability of software and AI

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Last July, an agreement was signed between the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and the ...

Visit by Professor Alejandra Cechich to Alarcos Group

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On Monday, September 13, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Alejandra Cechich to Alarcos Group, Director of the Software Engineering Research Group (GIISCo) at the National University of Comahue (Argentina).

DQPA: A software platform for ISO/IEC 33000-based self-assessment of data governance, data management, and data quality maturity

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Fernando Gualo, Ismael Caballero and Mario Piattini, together with Yolanda Ayuso, have published the work titled 'DQPA: A software platform for ISO/IEC 33000-based self-assessment ....

Participation in the Data Management SUMMIT in Rome

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Mario Piattini participated as a speaker in the Data Management SUMMIT held in the Promototeca Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome...

Participation in the Annual Meeting of the RIPAISC Network

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ignacio García participated in the annual coordination meeting of the RIPAISC network funded by CYTED. During this meeting, the different nodes presented the work carried out over the past year, ongoing projects, and collaborations carried out.

Presentation of the work "Generation of quantum circuits based on components"

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Description: Our colleague Patricia Díez presented the work titled "Generation of quantum circuits based on components" in the TLISC track, within CLEI 2026. In that presentation, ...

Alarcos presents Entangle at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 to analyse collaboration in the quantum software ecosystem

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Ángel Luis Lara-Martín and our colleague Ricardo Pérez-Castillo have presented the article 'Entangle: Uncovering Collaboration in the GitHub Quantum Software Ecosystem' in the workshop ...

Presentation of the work “An integrated model for the representation of quantum software projects”

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Samuel Rodero presented the work titled “An integrated model for the representation of quantum software projects”, in the TLISC track, within CLEI 2026. In this work...

Participation in the 52nd Latin American Conference on Computing (CLEI 2026)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Samuel Rodero, Patricia Díez and Ignacio García have participated in the TLISC days of CLEI 2026, presenting several works and participating in annual meetings of research networks.

Alarcos Group participates in Q-SET 2026 with advances in quantum software engineering

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez del Castillo, together with Javier Romero-Álvarez (University of Extremadura), Tommi Mikkonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and Alejandro Fernández ...

Alarcos Group and JCCM present a candidacy on Software and AI Sustainability to the enerTIC Awards 2026

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

The Alarcos Group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, together with the Junta of Castilla-La Mancha Communities, has submitted a candidacy for the enerTIC Awards 2026 with a project on ...

Félix García participates in the V Latin American School of Informatics of CLEI 2026

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On September 10, our colleague Félix García delivered an online session titled “Sustainability of processes and Green BPM”, in the V Latin American School of ...

Microcredential in Process Intelligence. Edition II (100% online)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Ricardo Pérez and Félix O. García are part of the academic direction of the Microcredential in Process Intelligence. Edition II (100% online)...

Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Optimization Techniques in C, Python, and Java

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Carlos Pulido, Félix García, and Mª Ángeles Moraga, together with members of the Foundation for Advanced Computing and Technologies of Extremadura (COMPUTAEX)...

Alarcos is participating in a new study on social debt in software engineering

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez-Castillo has contributed to the publication of the article “An ontology-based metamodel for ...

Journal-First paper dissemination at II Argentinean Symposium on Quantum Computing (ASQC)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200

The article “A software product line approach for developing hybrid software systems,” published by our colleagues ...

Mario Piattini Participates in IEEE AITest 2026 in Fukuoka

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Mario Piattini is attending the 8th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing ...

Entangle: Mapping, Analysis and Visualisation of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem on GitHub

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez del Castillo supervised the Bachelor’s Degree Final Project entitled “Entangle: Mapping, Analysis and Visualisation of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem on GitHub”, carried out by ...

The Castle of Uncertainty

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Manuel Ángel Serrano and Aurora Vizcaíno supervised the Bachelor's Degree Final Project presented by Rodrigo Palomares...

GENESIS: Automatic Generation of Classical–Quantum Code Using Multimodal Artificial Intelligence

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ricardo Pérez del Castillo supervised the Bachelor’s Degree Final Project entitled “GENESIS: A Tool for the Automatic Generation of Classical–Quantum Code Using Multimodal Artificial ...

Carlos Pulido presents energy-efficient software advances at Twente University

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

On 2 July, our colleague Carlos Pulido presented the latest progress on his doctoral thesis at the University of Twente. His research focuses on developing an environment for identifying, analysing ...

Plenary Meeting of the UNE CTN71/SC14 National Committee on “Quantum Technologies”

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán attended the plenary meeting of the UNE CTN71/SC14 National ...

Fernando Gualo collaborates with University of Oporto researchers on improving metadata for healthcare data

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Fernando Gualo is collaborating with University of Oporto researchers on a line of work related to the governance, description and quality of healthcare data. The aim is to apply principles and methodologies to ensure the proper management of clinical information.

OKR4DQ: A Case Study for Improving Data Quality with Objectives and Key Results

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleagues Moisés Rodríguez and Mario Piattini, in collaboration with Gema Gutierrez and Javier Garzás from the Rey Juan Carlos University, have published the article OKR4DQ: A Case Study for Improving Data Quality with Objectives and Key Results in volume 32(6) of The Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS).

Alarcos Group's Work Wins Award at JENUI 2026 for Contribution to Ethics and Professional Practice in Computer Science

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

The work 'What does the industry expect from students of a Computer Science degree? A study on personality factors' has been awarded the prize for best work related to ethics and professional practice in Computer Science.

Marcela Genero wins AENUI 2026 Quality and Innovation in Teaching Award

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

The University of Castilla-La Mancha professor has won the award for her work in favour of quality and innovation in teaching in computer science education.

Fernando Gualo highlights the key role of data quality and data governance in the smart digitalisation of waste management

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Fernando Gualo took part as an invited speaker in the international webinar “Application of Smart Digitalisation Technologies in Waste Sorting – Lessons Learned”, organised by ...

The ESI Examines What Personal Skills the IT Industry Expects from Students

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

A recent study conducted by professors and students of the Escuela Superior de Informática (ESI) examines what personal skills the IT industry expects from students.

: Participation on the Thesis Committee for the Doctoral Thesis “Privacy Preserving Framework for Developing IoT-Based Systems”

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán served as Chair of the committee that evaluated the doctoral dissertation titled “Privacy Preserving Framework for Developing IoT-Based Systems,” ...

Presentation of the paper “QSauron - Automated QSE environment for generating, developing, and testing quantum circuits” in the QuantumX track

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Our colleague Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán presented the paper titled “QSauron - Automated QSE Environment for Generating, Developing, and Testing Quantum Circuits” in the QuantumX track (SISTEDES ...