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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
Classification of business documents to aid extraction: the use of typed and weighted lexical-semantic relations
I’ve been a member of the Berger-Levrault research team since 2020. I’m working on a CIFRE thesis on methods and models for the automated construction of multi-domain ontology databases, in collaboration with the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM). This work was presented at the PFIA (Plate-forme Intelligence Artificielle) 2023 in Strasbourg
Integrate Software Engineering into the everyday world
I have been a member of the Berger-Levrault research team for 6 years. And, one of our main challenges is integrating our innovation into the day-to-day world of the company. There are several ways to incorporate innovation: as an external code library, providing schema, teaching how to use new tools, and so on. In this
Equipment 3D visualization in a CMMS application-2nd part
Find the first part of this article by following this link Navigation in the context of a CMMS asset using geometric and semantic data Our goal is to provide the user contextual views of an asset, thus to allow him to visualize the asset at different scale or using the many asset representations to answer
Our joint team Evref – Berger-Levrault/Inria
Berger-Levrault embarked on an exciting journey in 2023 by establishing a joint research team with the Inria research laboratory and the CRIStAL laboratory of the University of Lille. Named Evref, this collaboration marks a significant milestone in Berger-Levrault’s pursuit of advancing software comprehension and modernization. Evref: A Giant Leap Towards Software Understanding Evref is not
What are the evolutions of this law? Between abstraction and hallucination in the field of the summary of legal texts
Context Legal monitoring is a crucial activity for legal experts in order to remain in phase with legal news. It allows them to be permanently aware of current regulations and to anticipate their future evolutions, in order to apply them as soon as possible. However, with the constant inflation of legislation, the watchdogs themselves experience
Balancing the satisfaction of stakeholders in home health care coordination: a novel OptaPlanner CSP model
As part of the development of the innovative BL.Optim solution, we questioned the concept of route optimization for home health care coordination. We are pleased to inform you that this research and innovation work has recently resulted in a scientific publication in the journal Health Systems, that brings together critical research and commentary on health
Simulation and analysis of disruptive events on BL.Optim-HHCRSP solution
The world demographic trend will be driven by a significant increase in the number of people over 60 years of age (60% increase in the next 40 years), with a life expectancy that is expected to rise. In this context, the demand of home-based support for independent elderly people is increasing sharply. This highlights the
BL.Formation: helping HR managers aggregating similar requests to build the municipalities’ training plan
The goal of BL.Formation Each year, territorial agents can claim training courses and their managers can also ask for trainings for the department. In medium to large municipalities, these requests are sent to the training managers in the HR department. There can be a significant amount of training requests to compile and classify. Training managers
Neolink: Lifelong pathway co-construction
While personal coach applications are now ubiquitous, personal lifelong pathway co-construction is largely overlooked, although present for e-learning, healthcare, return to employment, home-care of elders, etc. Modeling generic lifelong pathway co-construction is feasible since these situations share many properties. We contribute to the problematics with a generic model for the co-construction of lifelong pathways applicable
Yassine Bel Ghaddar Ph.D. thesis defense : “Data fusion for urban network mapping: application to wastewater networks”
Tuesday 13th of December at 9h30 a.m. Paris time, Yassine Bel Ghaddar, Ph.D. Candidate will defend his thesis named “Data fusion for urban network mapping: application to wastewater networks”. His thesis defense will take place at the conference room of the Faculty of science and technologies in Fez, Morocco. This thesis is a CIFRE-France-Morocco collaboration
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
