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Financing Long-Term Innovation: A Strategic Lever for Research at Berger-Levrault
A Strong Commitment to Innovation As a leading industrial company in the field of software and digital services for local authorities and public-sector stakeholders, Berger-Levrault places innovation at the heart of its development strategy. In a context of accelerated digital transformation, anticipating future uses, exploring new technologies, and preparing tomorrow’s solutions have become key challenges for competitiveness and technological sovereignty. To address these challenges, Berger-Levrault has, for several years, relied
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
Re.Optim: Responding dynamically to changes and unforeseen events in schedules generated by BL.Optim
BL.Optim: A cutting-edge but static planning optimization tool BL.Optim is our optimization engine for routing and scheduling, used to generate efficient planning under complex constraints. While highly flexible, it currently operates as a static solver: schedules are generated once, based on a submitted problem, and cannot be adapted without full recomputation. When plans need to
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
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.
Exploiting knowledge of BIM data : A MEP network topology detection method using geometry and spatial knowledge graph technologies
The integration of BIM data into CMMS for asset management and maintenance is becoming increasingly widespread and accessible. Among the standardized data models used in the built asset industry, IFC (Information For Construction) remains the most widely adopted open format within the BIM domain. It facilitates the creation of digital twins of buildings, combining semantic
Automatic Merge Request reviewer with AutoCodeReview
Article co-authored by : Kilian Bauvent (Lead engineer), Benoit Verhaeghe (Project manager and Techn Lead), Marius Pingaud (Developer on BL.CodeRules and diagram designer), Nicolas Hlad (Blog post author and survey designer) On the importance of Merge Requests The overall Merge request Process at Berge-Levrault Let us start by giving the big picture. At Berger-Levrault, developers
Experimenting with Innovation in Real-Life Situations: the Key to User-Centered Co-Design
Key words: Innovation – Living Lab – User-centered co-design – Real-life situation – Human and Social Science – Safety – Market launch Innovation at the heart of Berger-Levrault’s strategy A long tradition Innovation is not simply the emergence of new ideas, but their effective implementation to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world. At Berger-Levrault,
Automatic Evaluation of LLM and RAG: Foundations and Established Methods
In professional environments, an increasing number of companies are integrating Large Language Models (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions to automate specific tasks or support their teams. However, ensuring the accuracy and relevance of these systems’ responses is critical, particularly when handling sensitive data or high-stakes business decisions. Evaluating these models requires a rigorous approach,
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
ICPC – 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)
Forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics – VIS 2025 (Vienna – Austria)
IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)
Camille Dupré Ph.D. thesis defense: “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”
Thursday 18th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Camille Dupré, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”. Her thesis defense took place at the LISN, in Gif-sur-Yvette (660 Av. des Sciences Bâtiment, 91190), France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Mixed Reality (MR) environments integrate virtual elements into
Nihed Bendahman Ph.D. thesis defense: “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”
Monday 15th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Nihed Bendahman, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”. Her thesis defense took place at the IRIT Research Laboratory, in Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Legal monitoring is a
Gabriel Darbord Ph.D. thesis defense: “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”
Friday 5th December at 9a.m. Paris time, Gabriel Darbord, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”. His thesis defense took place in Lille, France. Take a look at the summary below. This thesis is fully in line with the partnership between Berger-Levrault and Inria, which aims to
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
