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#machine learning Review Open access May 2016

Key Challenges in Software Startups Across Life Cycle Stages

It is found that what perceived as biggest challenges by software startups do vary across different life cycle stages, even though its significance decreases when the learning focuses of the startups move from problem to solution and their products mature.

Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa et al. · 62 citations · ⚡6
#machine learning Review Open access Oct 2016

“Failures” to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups

This study conducts a case survey study based on the secondary data of the major pivots happened in 49 software startups, and demonstrates that customer need pivot is the most common among all pivot types.

Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen-Duc et al. · 127 citations · ⚡15
#machine learning Open access May 2017

What Influences the Speed of Prototyping? An Empirical Investigation of Twenty Software Startups

This study conducts a multiple case study on twenty European software startups and proposes a prototype-centric learning model in early stage software startups, and identifies factors that occur as barriers but also facilitators for prototyping in earlystage software startups.

Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 44 citations · ⚡5
#machine learning Book Open access May 2019

An Empirical Study on Female Participation in Software Project Courses

Gender issues in software engineering education are gaining research attention due to the desire to promote female participation in the field. The objective of this work is to enhance the understanding of female students' participation in software engineering projects to support gender-aware course optimization. Since...

Anh Nguyen-Duc, M. L. Jaccheri, P. Abrahamsson · 9 citations
#machine learning Review Open access Apr 2023

StartCards - A method for early-stage software startups

The first published version of StartCards is presented, which is considered useful for early-stage startups and can also be used as a pedagogical tool in startup education.

Kai-Kristian Kemell, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Mari Suoranta et al. · 25 citations · ⚡1

VAPU: System for Autonomous Legacy Code Modernization

An LLM-based multi-agent system is indicated that an LLM-based multi-agent system is a capable solution to update components of a legacy application autonomously.

Valtteri Ala-Salmi, Z. Rasheed, Malik Abdul Sami et al. · 3 citations

Autonomous Legacy Web Application Upgrades Using a Multi-Agent System

An LLM-based multi-agent system that autonomously upgrades legacy web applications to the latest versions and maintains context across tasks and agents, improving solution quality over the base model in some cases is proposed.

Valtteri Ala-Salmi, Z. Rasheed, Malik Abdul Sami et al. · 4 citations

Context Before Code: An Experience Report on Vibe Coding in Practice

An experience report from a small full-stack team that applied contextual prompting and explicit architectural constraints to build a multi-project agent learning platform designed for sustained, production-oriented use and an academic retrieval-augmented generation system is presented.

Md Nasir Uddin Shuvo, M. Islam, Mahade Hasan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Jun 2025

Engineering RAG Systems for Real-World Applications: Design, Development, and Evaluation

Five domain-specific RAG applications developed for real-world scenarios across governance, cybersecurity, agriculture, industrial research, and medical diagnostics are presented, highlighting technical, operational, and ethical challenges affecting the reliability and usability of RAG systems in practice.

M. Hasan, Muhammad Waseem, Kai-Kristian Kemell et al. · 10 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Open access Feb 2025

Anomaly detection in smart power grids with graph-regularized MS-SVDD: a multimodal subspace learning approach

A generalized Multimodal Subspace Support Vector Data Description model with graph-embedded regularization is proposed, illustrating how relational and structural information can be systematically embedded into one-class models, enabling robust learning under complex, high-dimensional, and multimodal conditions.

Thomas Debelle, F. Sohrab, Pekka Abrahamsson et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Review Open access 2026

Secure AI Systems Protecting Machine Learning Models from Emerging Cyber Threats

Securing AI systems is not a task any single discipline can accomplish alone; it requires sustained collaboration between machine learning researchers, cybersecurity professionals, and policymakers if AI technologies are to remain reliable, trustworthy, and resilient in adversarial environments.

Harsh Verma · 1 citation

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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