Cristina Vicente-Chicote
Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Universidad de Extremadura, University of Cartagena, Software (Spain)
Papers
18
Total Citations
268
H-Index
10
About
Cristina Vicente-Chicote is a prominent researcher specializing in model-driven software engineering, robotic software development, and adaptive systems. Her work sits at the intersection of software engineering methodologies and robotics, where she has made significant contributions to improving the quality, flexibility, and efficiency of software development for complex robotic systems. Her most influential contribution, the V3CMM meta-model (2010, 75 citations), introduced a pioneering three-view component framework for model-driven robotic software development, addressing long-standing challenges in flexibility and time-to-market within the robotics community. Building on this foundation, she has consistently advanced the field through research on runtime variability management, developing domain-specific languages (DSLs) for non-functional properties that enable robots to adapt intelligently to unpredictable real-world environments. Vicente-Chicote has also made notable strides in quality-of-service (QoS) management for distributed real-time systems, proposing model-driven approaches to adaptive middleware and, more recently, integrating QoS metrics-in-the-loop for self-adaptive robotic architectures. Her collaborative work on covering the complete lifecycle of robotic systems further demonstrates her holistic vision for software engineering in robotics. With over 200 cumulative citations, her research continues to shape how engineers design, deploy, and adapt sophisticated robotic software systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2A Model-Driven Approach to Enable Adaptive QoS in DDS-Based Middleware27 citations · 2017
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- 6Towards a Stepwise Variability Management Process for Complex Systems13 citations · 2014
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- 9V3Studio: A Component-Based Architecture Modeling Language11 citations · 2008
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