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Explanation of the Coruscant Mobile project
This research is the result of a collaboration between Ali Can Kocabiyikoglu, Pascal Zaragoza, and Vincent Laval, part of the AI Laboratory | BL Research Team. The Challenge of Modern Maintenance Support A maintenance technician faces an unfamiliar “Error 20” on a medical device. Their hands are busy with tools, eyes on the equipment, yet they need to access repair documentation. This scenario highlights a fundamental problem: traditional maintenance support—paper
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
Combining cultural probes and interviews with caregivers to co-design a social mobile robotic solution
Demographic changes go together with an increase in the number of older adults whose life expectancy is higher than in previous years. An increase in age is often correlated with the presence of chronic diseases or polypathologies affecting autonomy. When the autonomy of the elderly person deteriorates, medical prescription allows access to health services and
Representing front-end of Applications in a nutshell
For the last 4 years, I worked with the migration team of the DRIT on the Graphical User Interface (GUI) migration problem. We published several papers and successfully migrated applications based on different GUI frameworks. Today, we’ll see together how we perform such a great project. In short, I’ll present you the Model-Driven Engineering and
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) a key component to the end-to-end automation of business processes
Company data is a key part of decision making, but unfortunately, much of this data is in an unstructured format: PDF documents, JPG scans, emails, etc. This unstructured representation is difficult to exploit by the machine, which complicates the automation of business processes. Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) captures, extracts, and processes data from a variety
🇫🇷 Frugalité : Pour un numérique qui minimise son impact écologique
Nous savons maintenant que l’épuisement des ressources de la planète et le gaspillage énergétique mettent en péril nos modes de vies, notre santé et notre économie. Le numérique que nous produisons, vendons ou utilisons n’a de virtuel que les interfaces avec lesquelles nous interagissons. Ses impacts sur notre monde sont bien réels et menacent l’équilibre
Monoliths in the shadow of the micro
Microservices are emerging nowadays for the simple reason that monolithic applications are complex to maintain, evolve and administer. It was therefore necessary to segment our monolith into a multitude of fragments. These fragments allow for a much simpler technical and/or functional evolution.This evolution is now common in the backend domain. However, the problem of the
IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)
La Mêlée Numérique – Artificial Revolutions (Toulouse – France)
29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries – TPDL 2025 (Tampere – Finland)
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
Clément talks at BIM World 2025 on the future of augmented maintenance using BIM models
At BIM World 2025, held in Paris on April 2-3, Clément Colin, our research engineer in BL Research team, spoke at a workshop dedicated to Digital Twins, alongside Laurent Truscello, Product Marketing Manager at Carl Berger-Levrault. The theme of their talk: “GEM & GMAO – Valuing and increasing the use of your BIM models for
