Research

Scientific Publications

BESSER includes cutting-edge results at the intersection of low-code, modeling and artificial intelligence. See some of the latest results BESSER has been part of!

A Metascience Study of the Low-Code Scientific Field

Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot. Journal of Object Technology, Volume 24, no. 2 (May 2025), pp. 2:1-14. Paper, Summary.

User Modeling in Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review

Aaron Conrardy, Alfredo Capozucca, Jordi Cabot. Journal of Object Technology, Volume 24, no. 2 (May 2025), pp. 2:1-14. Paper, Summary.

Low-code to fight climate change: the Climaborough project.

Aaron Conrardy, Armen Sulejmani, Cindy Guerlain, Daniele Pagani, David Hick, Matteo Satta, Jordi Cabot. RCIS 2025 Workshops. Paper.

Modeling the obsolescence of models.

Iván Alfonso, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Pierre Brimont, Jordi Cabot. Software and Systems Modeling 24, no. 3 (2025): 705-719. Paper, Summary.

Modelling Neural Network Models.

Nadia Daoudi, Ivan Alfonso, Jordi Cabot. International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, pp. 130-139. Paper, Summary.

ImageBiTe: A Framework for Evaluating Representational Harms in Text-to-Image Models

Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot. 2025 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on AI Engineering–Software Engineering for AI (CAIN). Paper, Summary.

On the suitability of hugging face hub for empirical studies

Adem Ait, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot. Empirical Software Engineering 30.2 (2025). Paper, Summary.

Towards the interoperability of Low-Code platforms.

Iván AlfonsoAaron David ConrardyJordi Cabot. CAiSE Forum 2025: 3-11. Summary 

Impromptu: A framework for model-driven prompt engineering

Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot. Softw Syst Model (2025). Paper.

On the Creation of Representative Samples of Software Repositories

Gorostidi, June, Adem Ait, Jordi Cabot, and Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo. Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, pp. 434-439. Paper.

Application of the Tree-of-Thoughts Framework to LLM-Enabled Domain Modeling

Jonathan Silva, Qin Ma, Jordi Cabot, Pierre Kelsen, Henderik A Proper. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, pp. 94-111. Paper.

Towards Data Interoperability for the Digital Product Passport Ecosystem

Iván Alfonso, Daniele Pagani, Jordi Cabot. Paper, Summary.

Low-Code Flutter Application Development Solution

Atefeh Nirumand Jazi, Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. Paper.

A DSL for Testing LLMs for Fairness and Bias

Morales, Sergio, Robert Clarisó, and Jordi Cabot. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, pp. 203-213. Paper.

From Image to UML: First results of image based UML diagram generation using LLMs.

Aaron Conrardy, Jordi Cabot: STAF 2024 Workshops: AgileMDE, LLM4MDE, and MeSS. pp. 55–65. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Paper

Exploring the use of software product lines for the combination of machine learning models.

Gomez-Vazquez, Marcos, and Jordi Cabot.. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (pp. 26-29). Paper, Summary.

Extending a low-code tool with multi-cloud deployment capabilities

Ul Haq, Fitash, Iván Alfonso, Armen Sulejmani, and Jordi Cabot. European Conference on Software Architecture, pp. 39-46. Paper, Summary.

Automatic Generation of Conversational Interfaces for Tabular Data Analysis

Gomez-Vazquez, Marcos, Jordi Cabot, and Robert Clarisó. Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, pp. 1-6. Paper, Summary.

What makes a good modeling research contribution?

Paige, Richard F., and Jordi Cabot. Software and systems modeling 23, no. 3 (2024): 527-531. Paper, Summary.

HFCommunity: An extraction process and relational database to analyze Hugging Face Hub data

Ait, Adem, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, and Jordi Cabot. Science of Computer Programming 234 (2024). Paper, Summary.

LangBiTe: An open-source platform to automate bias testing of large language models

Morales, Sergio, Robert Clarisó, and Jordi Cabot. Software X, volume 31. Paper.

A Framework to Model ML Engineering Processes

Morales, Sergio, Robert Clarisó, and Jordi Cabot. Paper.

Building BESSER: An Open-Source Low-Code Platform

Alfonso, Iván, Aaron Conrardy, Armen Sulejmani, Atefeh Nirumand, Fitash Ul Haq, Marcos Gomez-Vazquez, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, and Jordi Cabot. In International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support. Paper.

On the Readiness of Scientific Data Papers for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning

Giner-Miguelez, Joan, Abel Gómez, and Jordi Cabot. Sci Data 12, 61. Paper.

A leaderboard to benchmark ethical biases in LLMs.

Gomez-Vazquez, Marcos, Sergio Morales, German Castignani, Robert Clarisó, Aaron Conrardy, Louis Deladiennee, Samuel Renault, and Jordi Cabot. AIMMES 2024. Paper, Summary.

Modeling and enforcing access control policies in conversational user interfaces

Planas, Elena, Salvador Martínez, Marco Brambilla, and Jordi Cabot. Software and Systems Modeling, 22(6), pp.1925-1944. Paper, Summary.

A tool for the definition and deployment of platform-independent bots on open source projects.

Ait, Adem, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, and Jordi Cabot. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, pp. 214-219. Paper, Summary.

On the Suitability of Hugging Face Hub for Empirical Studies

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Datadoc analyzer: A tool for analyzing the documentation of scientific datasets

Giner-Miguelez, Joan, Abel Gómez, and Jordi Cabot. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5046-5050. Paper.

Model-driven prompt engineering.

Clarisó, Robert, and Jordi Cabot. 2023 ACM/IEEE 26th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), pp. 47-54. Paper, Summary.

Automating bias testing of LLMs.

 Morales, Sergio, Robert Clarisó, and Jordi Cabot. 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). Paper, Summary.

Low-modeling of software systems.

Jordi Cabot. International Conference on Software Technologies, 19-28. Paper, Summary.