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HIVEMIND kicks-off to advance AI-powered human-centric software development
Seville, Spain – The HIVEMIND (Human-centred collaboratIVE MultI-ageNt framework for accelerating software Development and maintenance) project has officially kicked-off, bringing together experts from academia, industry, and research to revolutionise software engineering through artificial intelligence. Funded under the Horizon Europe programme, HIVEMIND aims to develop a responsible and human-centric approach to AI-driven software engineering, accelerating the entire software lifecycle.
About HIVEMIND
HIVEMIND introduces an innovative LLM-based multi-agent framework designed to enhance collaboration between human developers and AI agents. These AI agents will be specialised to support various roles within a software development team, leveraging techniques such as fine-tuning with organisational data, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and human-in-the-loop machine learning.
This framework will drive efficiency in smart system specification, agile modelling, and automated requirement derivation, reducing late-stage modifications and improving consistency in software design.
The project will enable design-by-contract programming at all integration levels, empowering AI agents to assist in code development, analysis, verification, and testing with greater context awareness.
Extending beyond initial development, the initiative will provide robust support for dynamic maintenance across multi-architecture systems, ensuring long-term sustainability and adaptability in the digital landscape.
The partners
HIVEMIND is a collaborative effort uniting 13 partners from 8 countries, combining expertise in AI, software engineering, and industry applications. The project is coordinated by IDENER (Spain), with key contributions from Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany), Universidad de Alicante (Spain), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (Sweden), Software Imagination & Vision (Romania), Queen’s University Belfast (United Kingdom), HAVELSAN (Türkiye), Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany), TIGA Bilgi Teknolojileri (Türkiye), AUSTRALO (Estonia), Mälardalen University (Sweden), and Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland).
Over the next 36 months, HIVEMIND will validate its technologies in five real-world environments, ensuring its impact across various societal and industrial sectors.
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For more information about HIVEMIND, please contact:
María Ignacia Culell
Project Dissemination and Communication Manager
Email: maria@australo.org
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