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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 field, feedback from solutions such as CARL Source and CARL Optim, and the prospects opened
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
Knowledge at your fingertips: Building an Ontological Knowledge Base from our Editorial database
Our times are increasingly influenced by the prevalence of large volumes of data. These data most often hide great human intelligence. This intrinsic knowledge; whatever the field; would allow our information systems to be much more efficient in the processing and interpretation of structured and unstructured data. For example, the process of finding relevant documents
Automating the Detection of Duplicates in our Databases
Today’s complex applications for knowledge extraction and data mining use heterogeneous and distributed data. In this context, the quality of any decision depends on the quality of the data used. In fact, with the lack of accurate and reliable data, bad decisions can be made. In order to provide a better understanding of the source
Designing the right way to express constraints in a Java Architecture for Optimisation problems
We are often brought to solve problems with constraints in real life, such as: shopping in several distant stores, planning and organizing vacation expenses, or packing things in boxes during a move. Resolving these problems with constraints is not always easy. More particularly, when it comes to optimizing a set of criteria such as time,
Testing the migration of Graphical User Interfaces
Technologies and frameworks are not immortal, it’s a fact. For a software editor like us, it is regularly a necessity to migrate a framework to another. When you consider, large software like e-sedit for example, migrating the entire software in one shot is almost impossible. Many companies are migrating their software systems. And so, we
The Traceability chronicles – Episode 1: How logs can help you understand what your users do?
We start here a series of articles explaining some of our most interesting results with regard to traceability of applications. We will address the issues of automatic code instrumentation to trace the system by itself and the underlying difficulties. We will also discuss what constitutes a good, useful, and usable application trace. We will also
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)
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
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,
