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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
When AI generates Human Resources training plans!
Berger-Levrault works in collaboration with the Cusma association and the innovation commission to exchange experiences and advice on innovation applications. Among the projects, we started working on a supervised automatic classification of training requests.This project aims to assist administrative officers using artificial intelligence and robots to classify and prioritize training requests coming from agents. We
CARL – What if maintenance requests were automated?
CARL Source is CARL Software’s main software application for managing maintenance processes within the company, as well as the historical monitoring of the various materials and equipment, buildings, and necessary interventions. We conducted a study involving Natural Language Processing techniques for document understanding and qualification. Basically, we aim at interpreting real requests for intervention, to
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
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
