Message from the General Chair DSD 2022

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the main EUROMICRO event, the joint 25th Digital Systems Design (DSD 2022) and the 48th Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2022) Conferences. The integration of these two high quality conferences enables connections and collaboration opportunities among these diverse but highly interrelated fields. I am honored to host the DSD/SEAA event in Gran Canaria, one of the most important islands of Canary Islands in Spain. Particularly, the event will be held in the south of the island, in Meloneras (Maspalomas), surrounded by a fascinating landscape of ravines and protected areas, and just seven hundred meters from the golden-sand beach of Maspalomas, declared Protected Natural Area with the category of Special Nature Reserve since 1994. The south of the island of Gran Canaria gathers most of the island's tourism and brings together a huge number of high-level hotels and holiday resorts. The COVID-19 pandemic has diminished the number of conferences held in-person over the past two years, moving many events to virtual and decreasing the face-to-face experience for researchers around the globe, logically prioritizing the health, safety, and wellbeing of the attendees. With the improved current situation, the DSD/SEAA Organizing Committee have decided to support the return to normality by planning a totally in-person event, but providing the possibility to authors of certain countries, which still cannot travel to Gran Canaria due to the COVID-19 restrictions, to give their presentations online. First of all, I would like to thank all the authors for their high-quality research and their decision to present their work at DSD/SEAA. I would also like to thank the Program Chairs, Himar Fabelo and Samuel Ortega for DSD, as well as Regina Hebig and Andreas Wortmann for SEAA, the Track Chairs, the Program Committees members, and associate reviewers for their excellent work to select high-quality works and provide meaningful feedback to authors. Additionally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire DSD Steering Committee (Lech Jozwiak, Hana Kubatova, Paris Kitsos, Antonio Nuñez, Francesco Leporati, José Silva Matos, and Eugenio Villar), the entire SEAA Steering Committee (Michel Chaudron, Onur Demirors, Stefan Biffl and Rick Rabiser), the publication chair (Amund Skavhaung), the organizing chair (Pedro Carballo) and the publicity chair (João Canas Ferreira). Finally, I would like to thank the local organizing committee (Maria Castro, Raquel Leon, Abian Hernandez, Beatriz Martinez, Laura Quintana, Antonio Rodriguez, Carlos Vega and Eduardo Quevedo) for their continuous work and support in the preparation of the event. I hope DSD/SEAA in Gran Canaria will bring the relaxing atmosphere required for a profitable scientific experience and a wonderful personal stay.