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Some Berger-Levrault Living Lab Uses Cases: a Valuable Tool to Understand Users in Real Situations
This article by Valérie follows on from a previous one describing the innovative Living Lab set up at Berger-Levrault. As a reminder, this innovative, user-centered approach aims to optimize the development of appropriate, useful solutions that respond directly to the real needs and challenges encountered in the field by customers and users of our software. Here are some concrete examples of how this approach has been put into practice: Living
Accounting & Robots : A Love Affair
During the past months, Berger-Levrault and the Cusma association worked together within the newly created innovation commission. This comission aimed at co-designing new and innovative services involving for exemple robotic process automation (which we have recently talked and explained on BL.Research), artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The use RPA for automatic accounting checking was
PowerBuilder 12.5 goes to the Web!
A few months ago, Berger Levrault’s research team published an article on the result of an experiment allowing a JAVA application to work together with a Visual Basic 6 application. This work showed that you could use business components developed in Visual Basic 6 from JAVA and even “run” an entire application without having to
Augmented Reality in HealthCare
This week we responded to a call for projects from the ANS (French Digital Health Agency calls Structure 3.0. We proposed a totally new approach to interact with BL.soins, based on Microsoft Hololens and augmented reality techniques.The project aims at experimenting with augmented reality, its value, and acceptance in health care for older adults. But
The SoftScanner project: How to trace your front-end automatically?
Following the cooperation of three institutions: the University of Montpellier, the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and the Berger-Levrault company, the SoftScanner project is now underway. SoftScanner is a Model-Driven Approach for the Automatic Generation of Optimal Anchoring Configurations for Software System Execution Tracing Operations. Context and Problem Developers write “logging instructions” in the source
Why your Interoperability needs to be monitored
BL MOM and RabbitMQ Interoperability is one of the key challenges for enterprise information systems engineering. The lack of interoperability among applications and their sub-systems is a critical issue that can affect the overall quality of service. Data interoperability is implemented through data transport and exchange systems, the latter must be reliable and secure to
Building an Ontological Knowledge Base from Berger Levrault Editorial database
Context Ontologies are widely used in information retrieval (IR), Questions/Answers, and decision support systems, and have gained recognition as they are now being considered the new answer to semantic interoperability in modern computer systems and the next big solution for knowledge representation. The structuring and management of knowledge are at the heart of the concerns
Scientific paper accepted at the QUATIC 2020 conference
A few weeks ago, 3 DRI engineers had their paper accepted in the QUATIC 2020 conference. QUATIC 2020 is the 13th conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, which will take place on September 8-11, 2020. The selected paper is about: “Challenges for Layout Validation: Lessons Learned”. As part of Berger Levrault’s program
Adaptative Maintenance: CARL’S IoT Platform
In 2016, industrial customers have asked us about our vision of the industry of the future, and in particular the maintenance function.We set up a working group including 3 major industrial accounts to study the impact of the Plant 4.0 concept on maintenance: digital tools, organization, skills, new business models, and confidence in digital technology.After
DevOps & Middleware: a new project to facilitate the management of our deployments and enhance their reliability
A new collaboration project has been initiated with the team Spirals of INRIA Lille laboratory. In this project, we want to address the steering, orchestration, and maintenance mechanisms for our applications’ packaging, delivery, and deployment activities. The lack of formalization and traceability on the actions that are carried out for the deployment of our applications,
The Helios Project
A few weeks ago, the DRIT began working on a particularly innovative project that should be useful to us all: The Helios project.The ambition is to build an automatic observatory that collects, sorts, and classifies information from the net. The system is intended to be flexible and should enable us to keep a watch on
20th International Conference on Software Technologies – ICSOFT 2025 (Spain)
CIFRE Strategic orientation committee x ANRT (Paris – France)
Regional morning: Transforming maintenance into a profit center x Swarm itc and AFIM (Charbonnières Les Bains – France)
9th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software – GREENS’25 (Ottawa – Canada)
From the Iberian sun to the Rising sun for federated learning
On September 2024, we had the opportunity to attend two international conferences related to a segment of our work in artificial intelligence : Data Training Without Perturbative Adjustments for Predictive Maintenance The FLTA24 took place from September 17 to 19 in Valencia, Spain. As part of this research, we studied a concrete case: predictive maintenance,
Discover our 2024 Research & Innovation Yearbook!
We are delighted to present the first edition of the Research and Innovation Yearbook. This annual retrospective reflects the commitment and ambition of our Research and Technological Innovation Department at Berger-Levrault (also available in French and Spanish versions below). By highlighting our most audacious projects and innovative initiatives, we hope to share with you the
Julien at EKAW 2024 for his work on extracting legal data from LLMs
On December 3, 2024 in Amsterdam, Julien Breton – Research Engineer at Berger-Levrault (Team BL.Research) took part in the EKAW 2024 (European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop) conference. His paper demonstrates how the alliance between large language models (LLMs) and software architectures can optimize data annotation: a consequent time and cost saving, and greater reliability for technical
Benoit receives the Prix Science Ouverte 2024: Recognition of excellence and openness in Research at Berger-Levrault
In a world where science plays a crucial role in meeting economic, environmental and societal challenges, the notion of openness in research is taking on strategic importance. Organised by the Committee for Open Science (CoSO) and supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the Open Science Awards embody this commitment by recognising
Nicolas Ringuet Ph.D. thesis defense: “Modeling, Exploration, and Explainable Co-construction of Lifelong Pathways”
Thuesday 5th of November at 14h a.m. Paris time, Nicolas Ringet, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Modeling, Exploration, and Explainable Co-construction of Lifelong Pathways”. His thesis defense took place at the IUT in Blois, France. Take a look at the summary below : Summary This thesis explores the mechanisms of personalized support systems,
Camille Gosset Ph.D. thesis defense: “Methods and Models for the Automated Construction of Knowledge Graphs in the Legal Domain: Application to the Legal and Legal-Practical Resources of Local and Regional Authorities”
Thursday 26th of September at 10h a.m. Paris time, Camille Gosset, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Methods and Models for the Automated Construction of Knowledge Graphs in the Legal Domain: Application to the Legal and Legal-Practical Resources of Local and Regional Authorities”. Her thesis defense took place at the LIRM (Laboratory of Computer
Webinar IA x Maintenance: Explore the benefits of AI applied to CMMS!
Discover our new Webinar: Explore the benefits of AI applied to CMMS! On Thursday, September 19 – 10:30 am to 11:30 Christophe Bortolaso, Applied Research Manager de l’équipe BL Research (DRIT) and his colleague Laurent Truscello, Product & Innovations Manager (CARL Berger-Levrault), invites you to take part in the Webinar “Explore the benefits of artificial
Best Paper Award to Gabriel: Modest-Pharo, a collaborative work between Berger-Levrault & Inria
Gabriel Darbord started his Ph.D. two years ago in the Evref team at Inria, a joint project team with Berger-Levrault, supervised by Anne Etien (Pr.) and Nicolas Anquetil (MCF). His thesis focuses on the area of test generation, an essential component in the software development lifecycle. His research work is in partnership between: University of
