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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
Beginning of maintenance 4.0 project at SIAAP
SIAAP, the public reference for wastewater treatment in the Ile-de-France region, embarked in 2016 on the design of a long-term strategic plan: SIAAP 2030. It aims to implement a medium-term conditional and predictive maintenance strategy. Among the challenges pursued: improving the maintenance of its industrial equipment, in particular the real-time monitoring and diagnosis of critical
Solving optimization problem through the Domain-Specific Language based businesse rules modeler
BL.Optim is a research project of Berger-Levrault about planning management through optimization algorithm. However, the “constraints description” part in BL.Optim is supported by an API, which is extremely difficult to use to express new constraints. We want to replace the constraint descriptor by using a language more or less expressive, which allow us to easily
Berger-Levrault and CNRS sign a strategic partnership
We have been working for many years with the CNRS. Dozens of CIFRE theses and collaboration contracts have enabled us to explore a very wide range of potential in the fields of artificial intelligence, sustainable cities, advanced human-machine interaction, automatic language processing, etc. This relationship, which is dear to us, has enabled the group to
Active learning for intelligent document processing
Data is a key component of decision making. Today, companies deploy complex processes to automate the collection, storage and processing of large amounts of data. Most of this data is in the form of unstructured documents. Berger-Levrault’s software solutions handle documents of various natures: invoices, forms, etc. Unfortunately, this unstructured representation is difficult to exploit
What are Emergent Software Systems about?
Nowadays, due to the constant evolution of the software systems’ operating environment, modern software systems become increasingly complex and larger which makes their management and evolution difficult for a development team. These challenges pushed the IT (Information Technology) community to develop solutions that aim to assign the responsibilities of adaptation and decision-making to the software
BL.Assistant: Towards an Human-AI Teaming Platform
At work, you can have the best position ever (at least from your point-of-view), there are always boring and repetitive tasks to do that make you feel like you’re wasting your time. At Berger-Levrault, we aim to your life easier, that’s why we worked on BL.Assistant, a platform able to host AI-Based robots to assist
Towards measuring energy consumption of infrastructure architectural choices of web applications
Reducing our environmental footprint became a priority to save the planet. According to a recent Green IT study, the global environmental footprint of digital technology is equivalent to a continent two to three times the size of France and five times the weight of the French car fleet. Hardware manufacturers have been optimizing the efficiency
BL.OptiMAS: a Multi-Agent System-based model towards resolution of Routing and Scheduling Problem under uncertainties
Home care aims to provide appropriate health services to patients in the comfort of their home. This kind of services must be provided on a daily or weekly basis. To organize caregivers rounds, managers use predefined programs that specifies the cares services to be carried out, as well as the different resources allocated to each
Visualize your codebase with Moose
Developing an application is teamwork. It requires complementary skills to make it run smoothly. Though, bugs happened frequently and it’s not easy to read the code and all its interdependencies. So the easiest way would be to call your colleague who worked on it, but he has a flu and can not answer you. To
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
