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innovations from the semiconductor, electronics, metallurgy, and petroleum industries played a major role in reducing both PhotoVoltaic and Balance of System (BOS) costs,
but BOS costs were also impacted by innovations in software engineering and electric utilities.
Noninnovation factors, like efficiency gains from bulk purchasing and the accumulation of knowledge in the solar power industry, also reduced some cost variables.
In addition, while most PV panel innovations origi…

Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels
A new study reveals key innovations that contributed to the rapid decline of solar energy systems, showing that many of the most significant technological advances came from outside the solar sector. This work could help businesses, researchers, and policymakers identify optimal areas for future investment.

EQT and CPP Investments agree to acquire Neogov, a provider of HR and compliance software for US public sector agencies, for $3B from Warburg Pincus and Carlyle (Janelle Bradley/PitchBook)
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/eqt-and-cp…

The Impact of Team Diversity in Agile Development Education
Marco Torchiano, Riccardo Coppola, Antonio Vetro', Xhoi Musaj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08389 https://

The Impact of Team Diversity in Agile Development Education
Software Engineering is mostly a male-dominated sector, where gender diversity is a key feature for improving equality of opportunities, productivity, and innovation. Other diversity aspects, including but not limited to nationality and ethnicity, are often understudied.In this work we aim to assess the impact of team diversity, focusing mainly on gender and nationality, in the context of an agile software development project-based course. We analyzed 51 teams over three academic years, measuri…

Automatic integration of SystemC in the FMI standard for Software-defined Vehicle design
Giovanni Pollo, Andrei Mihai Albu, Alessio Burrello, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Cristian Tesconi, Loris Panaro, Dario Soldi, Fabio Autieri, Sara Vinco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19665

Automatic integration of SystemC in the FMI standard for Software-defined Vehicle design
The recent advancements of the automotive sector demand robust co-simulation methodologies that enable early validation and seamless integration across hardware and software domains. However, the lack of standardized interfaces and the dominance of proprietary simulation platforms pose significant challenges to collaboration, scalability, and IP protection. To address these limitations, this paper presents an approach for automatically wrapping SystemC models by using the Functional Mock-up Int…

DecipherGuard: Understanding and Deciphering Jailbreak Prompts for a Safer Deployment of Intelligent Software Systems
Rui Yang, Michael Fu, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Chetan Arora, Gunel Gulmammadova, Joey Chua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16870

DecipherGuard: Understanding and Deciphering Jailbreak Prompts for a Safer Deployment of Intelligent Software Systems
Intelligent software systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in critical sectors, raising concerns about their safety during runtime. Through an industry-academic collaboration when deploying an LLM-powered virtual customer assistant, a critical software engineering challenge emerged: how to enhance a safer deployment of LLM-powered software systems at runtime? While LlamaGuard, the current state-of-the-art runtime guardrail, offers protection against unsafe in…

VDGraph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Unlock Insights from SBOM and SCA Data
Howell Xia, Jonah Gluck, Sevval Simsek, David Sastre Medina, David Starobinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20502

VDGraph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Unlock Insights from SBOM and SCA Data
The high complexity of modern software supply chains necessitates tools such as Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) to manage component dependencies, and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to identify vulnerabilities. While there exists limited integration between SBOMs and SCA tools, a unified view of complex dependency-vulnerability relationships remains elusive. In this paper, we introduce VDGraph, a novel knowledge graph-based methodology for integrating vulnerability and dependency d…