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Elena Molino Peña
PhD Student
University of Seville
About Me

I am a Software Engineer and Ph.D. student at the University of Seville, working in the Applied Software Engineering (ISA) Research Group. My research focuses on the automatic analysis of service agreements, particularly the detection of rights, obligations, and potentially abusive terms.

Education
  • Escuela Internacional de Doctorado (University of Seville)
    Escuela Internacional de Doctorado (University of Seville)
    Department of Computer Languages and Systems
    Ph.D. Student
    2023 - present
  • Escuela Internacional de Posgrado (University of Seville)
    Escuela Internacional de Posgrado (University of Seville)
    M.Sc. in Software Engineering - Cloud, Data, and IT Management
    2022 - 2023
  • Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (University of Seville)
    Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (University of Seville)
    B.Sc. in Software Engineering
    2017 - 2021
Experience
  • Applied Software Engineering Research Group (ISA), University of Seville
    Applied Software Engineering Research Group (ISA), University of Seville
    Research Support Technician
    2022 - present
  • Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville
    Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville
    Interim Substitute Lecturer
    2023 - 2024
Awards
2025
Best Long Paper Award — JCIS 2025 · Towards a Reference Model for Automatic Analysis of Customer Agreements in SaaS
Sep 09
Best Paper Award — OPAL Workshop @ ESWC 2025 · TOSL: An Ontology to Detect Abusive Services
Jun 01
Publications
Integrating Terms of Service and Service Level Agreements for Automating Cloud Service Management
Integrating Terms of Service and Service Level Agreements for Automating Cloud Service Management

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2025

The paper proposes an integrated ontology that semantically unifies terms of service and service-level agreements, enabling holistic analysis of customer agreements. This approach supports operations that consider interdependencies across documents and is validated with real cloud service providers.

Integrating Terms of Service and Service Level Agreements for Automating Cloud Service Management

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2025

The paper proposes an integrated ontology that semantically unifies terms of service and service-level agreements, enabling holistic analysis of customer agreements. This approach supports operations that consider interdependencies across documents and is validated with real cloud service providers.

Towards a Reference Model for Automatic Analysis of Customer Agreements in SaaS
Towards a Reference Model for Automatic Analysis of Customer Agreements in SaaS

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García, Octavio Martín López, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

Actas de las XX Jornadas de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Servicios (JCIS) 2025

The paper presents a holistic conceptual model and catalogue of analysis operations for automating Customer Agreement (CA) analysis across the full service lifecycle. It also introduces a reference architecture designed to integrate and enhance automated tools, reducing the manual, error-prone effort typically involved in assessing SaaS agreements.

Towards a Reference Model for Automatic Analysis of Customer Agreements in SaaS

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García, Octavio Martín López, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

Actas de las XX Jornadas de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Servicios (JCIS) 2025

The paper presents a holistic conceptual model and catalogue of analysis operations for automating Customer Agreement (CA) analysis across the full service lifecycle. It also introduces a reference architecture designed to integrate and enhance automated tools, reducing the manual, error-prone effort typically involved in assessing SaaS agreements.

TOSL: An Ontology to Detect Abusive Services
TOSL: An Ontology to Detect Abusive Services

Elena Molino-Peña, José María Cruz Lorite, José María García, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

ODRL and beyond: practical applications and challenges for policy-base access and usage control Workshop @ ESWC 2025

The paper presents TOSL, an ontology that structures the terms of service of SaaS providers to enable the automatic detection of unfair or abusive clauses. By modelling real agreements and querying them with SPARQL, the approach proves effective at identifying potentially harmful terms for consumers.

TOSL: An Ontology to Detect Abusive Services

Elena Molino-Peña, José María Cruz Lorite, José María García, Antonio Ruiz Cortés

ODRL and beyond: practical applications and challenges for policy-base access and usage control Workshop @ ESWC 2025

The paper presents TOSL, an ontology that structures the terms of service of SaaS providers to enable the automatic detection of unfair or abusive clauses. By modelling real agreements and querying them with SPARQL, the approach proves effective at identifying potentially harmful terms for consumers.

Towards a Systematic Comparison Framework for Cloud Services Customer Agreements
Towards a Systematic Comparison Framework for Cloud Services Customer Agreements

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC Workshops 2023

The paper presents a framework that automates the analysis and comparison of service contracts using language models to detect obligations, rights, and involved parties. A prototype and evaluation show that the system effectively supports understanding and reasoning about agreement terms.

Towards a Systematic Comparison Framework for Cloud Services Customer Agreements

Elena Molino-Peña, José María García

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC Workshops 2023

The paper presents a framework that automates the analysis and comparison of service contracts using language models to detect obligations, rights, and involved parties. A prototype and evaluation show that the system effectively supports understanding and reasoning about agreement terms.

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