Open quantum systems lose energy and phase coherence through different dissipative processes, but these processes can produce overlapping dynamical signatures. The Liouvillian spectrum summarizes how such a system relaxes, yet it is not obvious how much of that spectrum is needed to distinguish the underlying dissipati...
Literature and practice has established that the lack of management commitment has been one of the top reasons for a failed SPI (software process improvement) initiative. The paper reports results from an ongoing study aimed at clarifying the role and the meaning of management commitment in SPI initiatives. Results fro...
P. Abrahamsson· Proceedings of the 26th Euro...· 27 citations· ⚡2
It is shown that current thinking relies on models of commitment that are flawed in both academic and practical sense and four misconceptions are identified in current thinking.
P. Abrahamsson· Scandinavian Journal of Info...· 61 citations· ⚡5
The results indicate that there exist differences in the views of the nature of UCD, and in the motives for implementing it, in the experiences gained and interpretations made of the use of it in relation to each subculture.
N. Iivari, P. Abrahamsson· Hawaii International Confere...· 0 citations
This thesis suggests that the commitment phenomenon is better explained through what can be called strategic, operational and personal commitment nets, which can be used for analyzing the unfolding and alteration of commitment towards a specific entity, in this case a software process improvement endeavor, through time...
Results from the University of Oulu in Finland, where PSP is a mandatory course for students majoring in software engineering, do not indicate a significant improvement in size or effort estimation skills, but the defects found in the unit test phase were decreased.
P. Abrahamsson, K. Kautz· European Conference on Softw...· 27 citations· ⚡3
This work proposes an evolutionary software product line modelling approach based on controllable inheritance of product line members specifications that uses hierarchies of implemented product specifications accompanied by correctness control of product model transformations.
S. Roubtsov, Ella E. Roubtsova, P. Abrahamsson· 3 citations
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 2, 2026
Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists computationally search a space far larger than intuition allows and prioritize hypotheses before they reach the lab. Experimental results provide important feedback, helping researchers sharpen future research directions. The post Introducing Q…