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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
How to use VSCode and Moose to analyze Java projects?
VSCode is an amazing editing tool. Thanks to its extensions, one can develop using many programming languages. However, what about analyzing a software system using VSCode? In this article, we will show you how to use VSCode with Moose to analyze Java code. We use Christopher Fuhrman’s post as an example. Although we can perform
Generation of Interoperability Connectors: an efficient way to save time
Code generation has gradually become a prominent aspect of today’s software development. The process of writing software requires developers to frequently rewrite similar code repeatedly. This practice can be both time-consuming and tedious. Developers aim to occasionally write abstraction to keep their applications DRY (do not repeat yourself), however writing an abstraction is not always
Micro-application architecture: A guaranteed time saver
In order to guarantee better maintainability and scalability of our applications, we often have to break down our application into a multitude of micro-services with their own logic. These micro-services must be as autonomous as possible and fulfill a specific function in order to be able to reuse them in different contexts.This architecture is enormously
🧾DeepFacture🧾: When deep learning visually controls invoices
Before total digitalization, the invoices were visually checked by the agents. Today the invoices are entirely dematerialized, therefore nobody checks their layout, readability, and consistency with their metadata. In France, controlling an invoice dataflow (ORMC: Order of Multi Creditor Receipt) can take up to 1 full day. ORMC data flow is sent by more than
🇫🇷 L’illectronisme, un handicap majeur dans une société de plus en plus digitalisée
Le terme « illectronisme » est un néologisme transposant le problème d’illettrisme dans le domaine de l’information électronique. On peut le définir comme un manque de connaissances clés nécessaires à l’utilisation des ressources électroniques. On parle aussi d’illettrisme numérique, ce qui met bien en avant les difficultés de lecture des ressources numériques. Il est important
What is the place for the Low Code / No Code evolution?
The Low Code/No Code did not appear in the early 2020s, it is a trend that has already been taking shape for several decades and in 2021 the market is still in the creation phase. There are a very large number of well-known players such as Salesforce, OutSystems, K2, Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian, AgilePoint, or Microsoft
What is Federated Learning?
Nowadays, a massive amount of data is generated by devices such as smartphones and connected objects (IoT). This data is used to train high-performance machine learning (ML) models, making artificial intelligence (AI) present in our daily lives. Data is generally sent to the cloud, where it is stored, processed, and used to train models in
DEESSE: A Generic Search Engine based on Artificial Intelligence
In Berger-Levrault, several of our software products incorporate a search engine in themselves to facilitate access to information. This information can be encoded in files having various and varied formats. For example, Word, PDF, CSV, JSON or even XML files. Current search engines such as Lucene focus most of the time on keyword searches. This
Artificial Intelligence for Home Care Structures
The aging of the population leads to an increase in the number of people losing their autonomy and in situations of fragility. Due to the lack of space in medico-social institutions, home care structures (SAAD, SSIAD, SPASAD, and HAD) are an alternative offering a better environment for beneficiaries. We are working on a project whose objective
Understanding the complexity of the city
The systemic project of the city aims to structure the various key concepts which reflect the complexity of the object “City”. The approach used in this project exploits the different data provided by the digital city to translate sustainable development into the processes of technical management of the territory, correlate the different representations 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
