Short bio: Prof. Ernesto Pimentel holds the BSc. and MSc degrees in Mathematics (1988), and the PhD degree in Computer Science (1993). He is Full Professor at the University of Malaga since 2003 (He was the Vice Chancellor for Studies (2020-2023) of the University of Malaga and, previously, Dean of the Informatics School and Head of the Dept. of Computer Science). He is leading the Group of Software Engineering at UMA and the SCENIC research team (Service and Component Engineering for Internet Computing), and is involved in a number of national and international research projects as responsible and senior researcher. In addition to his research activity he also has occupied several relevant positions as member of the managing team of the Spanish National Research Program for Communication and Information Technologies (2001-2004), Spanish representative in the executive committee of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2003-2009), member of the Ex-ante Accreditation Committee for Master Degrees in the Engineering field (2008-2013), Chair of the EURO-INF Accreditation Board of ANECA -National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain- (from 2014), member of the Executive Board of EQANIE -European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education- (from 2018), or President of the Spanish Conference of Informatics Schools' Deans (CODDII), from 2017 until 2019. His research activity is focused on Service-Oriented Computing, Component-Based Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things. He has participated in many conferences as member of the program committees, member of the organizing and steering committees, and chair. Most of his work has been published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences.

Research Activities

• Research interests: Service-oriented Computing, Cloud Computing, Service and Component Adaptation, Formal Methods in Software Engineering.

• A selection of my publications may be found through Google Scholar or DBLP.

• Active research projects:

  • MAIIO: Management and Analysis of Intra & Inter Organizational Business Processes. December 2022 - September 2025.

  • IPSCA: Including People in Smart City Applications. September 2022 - August 2025.

• Other recent (and closed) projects:

  • SOFOCLES: Software Orchestration for Fog, Edge and Cloud Systems. November 2019 - May 2021.

  • COSCA: Digital Avatars: A Framework for Collaborative Social Computing Applications. January 2019 - December 2021.

  • ODA2: Osmotic Digital Avatars for Open Data Aggregation. February 2020 - January 2022

  • DADIoT: Development, Analysis and Deployment of IoT Applications. Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. January 2016 - July 2019.

  • Smart-FI: Exploiting Aggregated Open Data from Smart Cities for the Future Internet Society. ERA-NET project. Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. April 2016 - September 2018.

  • SeaClouds: Seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications. European Commission. October 2013 - March 2016

  • SOFIA: Service Optimization and Orchestration for Future Internet Applications. Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness . January 2013 - December 2015

  • NESSoS: Network of Excellence on Eng. Secure Future Internet SW Services and Systems.European Commission. 2011-2014

• Editorial Board member:

  • Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT)

  • Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

  • Computing

  • Services

• PhD Thesis (co) Advisor:

  • Patrícia Araújo de Oliveira

  • José Carrasco

  • José Antonio Martín-Baena

  • Meriem Ouederni

  • Javier Cubo

  • José Luis Pastrana

  • Ana M. Rodán

  • Antonio Maña

  • Carlos Canal

  • Juan Miguel Molina

• Program or Steering Committee member (forthcoming events):

  • 27th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2024, Curitiba, Brazil, May 6-10 2024)

  • Jornadas de la Sociedad de Ingeniería de Software y Tecnologías de Software (SISTEDES 2024, A Coruña, Spain, June 17-19, 2024)

  • 10th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023, Larnaca, Cyprus, October 24-26, 2023)

• Program or Steering Committee member (recent events):

  • 21st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2023, November 28- December 1, Rome, Italy, 2023)

  • 26th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2023, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 24- 28 2023)

  • XXVI Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2023, Ciudad Real, Spain, September, 2023)

  • XXII Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2023, Ciudad Real, Spain, September, 2023)

  • 20th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2022, November 29- December 2, 2022, Sevilla, Spain)

  • 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. On-line, March 22-24, 2022)

  • XXV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2022, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September, 2022)

  • XXI Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2022, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September, 2022)

  • 25th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2022, Córdoba, Argentia, June 13- 17, 2022)

  • 19th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021, November 22-25, 2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

  • XXIV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2021, Málaga, Spain, September, 2021)

  • XX Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2021, Málaga, Spain, September, 2021)

  • 24th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2021, San José, Costa Rica, August 31- September 3, 2021)

  • 8th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020, On-line, September 28-30, 2020)

  • 18th International Workshop on Coordination and Self-Adaptiveness of Software Applications (FOCLASA 2020, 2020) - cancelled.

  • XXIV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2020, Málaga, Spain, September 23-35, 2020) - postponed.

  • XX Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2020, Málaga, Spain, September 23-25, 2020) - postponed.

  • IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2020, July 7 - 11, 2020, Beijing, China)

  • 23rd Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2020, Curitiba, Brazil, November 11-13, 2020) - online

  • 17th International Workshop on Coordination and Self-Adaptiveness of Software Applications (FOCLASA 2019, Oslo, Norway, September 17-19, 2019)

  • XXIV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2019, Cáceres, Spain, September 2-4, 2019)

  • XIX Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2019, Sevilla, Spain, September 2-4, 2019)

  • IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2019, July 8 - 13, 2019, Milan, Italy)

  • 22nd Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2019, La Habana, Cuba, April 22-26, 2019)

  • 2019 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2019, San Diego, USA, June 25 - 30, 2019)

  • XXIII Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2018, Sevilla, Spain, September 17-19, 2018)

  • XVIII Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2018, Sevilla, Spain, September 17-19, 2018)

  • International Conference on Smart Cities and Internet of Things (SCIOT 2018, September 26-27, Maschad, Iran, 2018)

  • 16th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2018, November 12-15, 2018, HangZhou, Zhejiang, China)

  • IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2018, July 2 - 7, 2018, San Francisco, USA)

  • 2019 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018, Seattle, USA, June 25 - 30, 2018)

  • 21st Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2018, Bogotá, Colombia, April 23-27, 2018)

  • 7th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2018, Como, Italy, September 12-14, 2018)

  • 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017, June 25 - 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)

  • 15th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2017, November 7-10, 2017, Málaga, Spain)

  • 20th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22-23, 2017)

  • 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2017, Oslo, Norway, September, 2017)

  • XXII Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2017, Tenerife, Spain, July 17-20, 2017)

  • XVII Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2017, Tenerife, Spain, July 17-20, 2017)

  • XIII Jornadas de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Servicios (JCIS 2017, Tenerife, Spain, July 17-20, 2017)

  • The 2016 S2 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2016, November 14-15, Zhangjiajie, China, 2016)

  • 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2016, Viena, Austria, September, 2016)

  • 23rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2016)

  • V Congreso Español de Informática (CEDI, Salamanca, Spain, September 13-15, 2016)

  • XXI Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2016, Salamanca, Spain, September 13-15, 2016)

  • XVI Jornadas de Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE 2016, Salamanca, Spain, September 13-15, 2016)

  • XII Jornadas de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Servicios (JCIS 2016, Salamanca, Spain, September 13-15, 2016)

  • 19th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE 2016, Quito, Ecuador, April 27-29, 2016)

Teaching Activities

• Methods for Reliable Software Development (access for registered students) is a subject of the Master of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

• Object-Oriented Programming (access for registered students) is a common subject of different bachelor degrees offered by the E.T.S.I. Informática.

• Programación Orientada a Objetos con Java. By F. Durán, F. Gutiérrez, and E. Pimentel. Textbook (in Spanish) on Object-Oriented Programming in Java. Thomsom, 2007.

Other (in Spanish)

• Álbum de fotografías

Este álbum muestra fotografías de eventos familiares y vacaciones. Su acceso está restringido a familiares y amigos (solo hasta mediados de 2018).

También es posible acceder a través de este enlace al album de fotografías del Club de Espeleología y Barrancos Yabalfaruh.

• Aires de Sierra y Mar (por Miguel Bueno)

Miguel nos ha obsequiado con una recopilación de los textos que ha ido publicando en su blog, adornados con fotografías, que complementan la palabra con excelentes imágenes. Es posible acceder al texto desde este enlace.