José Miguel Horcas
Ph.D. in Computer Sciences
José Miguel Horcas is a researcher of the CAOSD group in the Languages and Computer Science Department at the Universidad de Málaga (Spain) from 2012. He received his PhD in Computer Sciences in 2018 from the same university. His main research areas are Sofware Product Lines (SPLs), Quality Attributes (QAs), Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE).
He has participated in several national and international research projects and he has published more than thirty research articles in JCR journals and international conferences, including three best paper awards. In addition, almost all of the conference publications have been presented by José Miguel in the conferences by oral communication. He has also collaborated with several prestigious universities (King’s College London, Trinity College of Dublin, Universidade da Coruña) and enterprises (Montimage, Enxenio) with outstanding outcomes resulting in high quality publications.
Research quality indicators
61 publications
5 Best Paper Awards 🏆 (SoMeT'18, SPLC'17, MATES'16, SPLC'21, ConfWS'21)
Cites: 554 (Google Scholar)
H index: 14 (Google Scholar)
Research interests
Software Product Lines (SPLs) and variability: variability and dependency modeling, feature models, CVL, configurations, software architectures,...
Quality Attributes (QAs) and operationalizations: security (encryption, hashing, authentication), usability (logging, contextual help,...), persistence, performance, energy-efficiency,...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE): Search-Based Model Optimization, M2M transformations, metamodels, ATL, Henshin,...
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD): Aspect-Oriented Modeling, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP): Aspectj, AspectC++,...