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Usage discrepancies: when business software meets real life
Do users really follow the paths carefully mapped out by designers? And when reality goes beyond the scope of the design—which happens more often than we think—how can we know this other than through intuition and assumptions? On a daily basis, business-oriented software supports very concrete activities: managing leave, processing absences, tracking careers, producing regulatory reports, etc. In terms of design, these activities are translated into well-defined paths, supported by
Meet Tiago : The future elderly’s best friend
Since August and this article explaining the context and the methodology, our team has used to co-design a social mobile robot with healthcare professional; Tiago has grown up.He has been designed to help and entertain elderly people but also to support caregivers in health services and institutions (EHPAD, day care, rehabilitation center, SSIAD, SSAD).Studying the
Semantic Mediation for Data Exchange
In the current socioeconomic context, companies must work together. Interoperability, which is the action to work together through systems is an unconditional factor to do so. To work, the information shared needs to be compatible. Information can be incompatible when they’re built differently by people or systems.Mediation goal is to manage syntactic and semantic information
Using an interactive information visualization to improve administrative management workflows
The time spent processing administrative requests has an impact on citizen satisfaction. Improving administrative workflows is therefore an important objective for town halls. A workflow is made of a starting point, several parallel or sequential process steps (containing one to several actions, and a theoretical completion time) and decision points (Figure 1) to be processed
Augmented Reality to help remote assistance
We’ve all been in this situation, doing a manual job while following instructions (to realise a recipe or building your new furniture for instance). How pleasant would it be to have your hands free while processing the actions list?Augmented Reality allows integrating 2D or 3D virtual elements (visuals, acoustic…) to the user world perception. This
Software testing hyper automatization with Artificial Intelligence
Nowadays, societies evolve at a fast pace. These evolution involve changes in our tools. It’s the case with software, they must evolve and stay updated to answer our needs. But, how to make sure software answer our needs despite evolution? A popular and effective way is testing. A test will check a software behavior to
BL.MOM Connector Generation – Part 2
Figure 1. Global architecture of BL-MOM Connector Generator Figure 2. Interoperability contexts catalogue Figure 3. Creating a new connector Figure 4. Integrated AsyncAPI editor and schema documentation Figure 5. Generated message schema documentation – according to the AsyncAPI specification Figure 6. Manually written code on the left side Vs generated code on the right side
Migrating internationalization files
During my Ph.D. migration project, I consider the migration of several GUI aspects: Visual, Behavioral and Business. These elements are the main ones. When perfectly considered, you can migrate the front-end of any application. But, we are missing some other stuff 😄 For example, how do you migrate i18N files? In this post, I’ll present how to build a simple migration tool to migrate I18N files from .properties (used by Java)
How to apply Christoffel-Darboux kernel on online anomaly detection with few parameterization
Incremental properties Kevin Ducharlet is Ph.D. Candidate in the DRIT team. Since a year and a half, he started his thesis entitled: “Certification and confidence in sensor data: detection of outliers and abnormal values in time series.” Sensor data are generated using devices which measure a physical asset’s behaviour. These informations can be used to
🇫🇷 EcoConception numérique: Fiches pratiques pour les Product Owners, les développeurs, les DevOps
L’actualité nous le répète sans cesse mais le numérique dans son ensemble est un des secteurs d’activité les plus polluants dans le monde. 4% des émissions de GES mondiales sont dues au numérique soit plus que l’aviation civile mondiale ! Il est donc fondamental de modifier nos habitudes de consommation et de production pour limiter
Forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics – VIS 2025 (Vienna – Austria)
IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)
La Mêlée Numérique – Artificial Revolutions (Toulouse – France)
Gabriel Darbord Ph.D. thesis defense: “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”
Friday 5th December at 9a.m. Paris time, Gabriel Darbord, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”. His thesis defense took place in Lille, France. Take a look at the summary below. This thesis is fully in line with the partnership between Berger-Levrault and Inria, which aims to
Berger-Levrault strengthens its ties with AI startups!
We are proud to announce that we have joined Hub France IA, the largest association dedicated to artificial intelligence in France. This network now brings together more than 250 members—companies, startups, research laboratories, and institutions—who share the same goal: to accelerate the development and adoption of AI in France and Europe. Getting closer to the
Celebrating New PhDs from the BL.Research Team!
At Berger-Levrault, research is more than a mission—it’s a shared adventure. As the new academic year begins, we are proud to celebrate the success of four of our colleagues from the BL.Research team, who have reached a major milestone in their scientific journeys: the defense of their doctoral theses. These achievements are the result of
Hamza Safri Ph.D. thesis defense: “Federated learning for the IoT : Application for Industry 4.0”
Thuesday 24th June at 3pm Paris time, Hamza Safri, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Federated learning for the IoT: Application for Industry 4.0”. His thesis defense took place at the Inria Minatec Grenoble, Grenoble, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Model generalization, predictive maintenance, industrial IoT, federated learning, edge network,
ESUG 2025: Six contributions and 2 prizes for the Software Engineering Lab team!
Congratulations to our PhDs Nicolas Hlad, Aless Hosry, Benoit Verhaeghe and Pascal Zaragoza from Berger-Levrault’s BL.Research team for their participation in the 2025 edition of the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) conference! This year’s conference took place from July 1-4 in Gdansk, Poland. The theme was innovation in Smalltalk technologies and their use in software
Julien Breton Ph.D. thesis defense: “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”
Friday, 27th June at 1.30 pm Paris time, Julien Breton, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”. His thesis defense took place at the IRIT research laboratory, Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Legal compliance,Industrial maintenance, Norm extraction,LLM (Large
New White Paper – AI for maintenance! Challenges, Opportunities and Case Studies
How is artificial intelligence transforming maintenance practices today? What are the concrete opportunities for equipment, infrastructure and fleet managers? The new white paper published by CARL Berger-Levrault offers a rich and accessible insight into these strategic questions. Entitled “AI at the service of maintenance: challenges, opportunities and case studies”, this document summarizes experience in the
New White Paper – Agentic AI, a Software and Societal Revolution!
Research at Berger-Levrault is tackling a new frontier in artificial intelligence: that of (partially) autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, collaborating, orchestrating and learning in complex business environments. Our new white paper, “Beyond automation – How agentic AI is transforming the software industry”, shares with you an in-depth analysis of this ongoing technological revolution, its
