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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
Pascal Zaragoza Ph.D. thesis defense: Model-driven migration of monolithic applications towards a microservice-oriented architecture
The passage to Cloud Computing fostered the development of new architectural styles to take advantage of its capabilities. The microservices oriented architecture (MSA) is the last style to emerge. This architecture is organized around small services focused on specifics business features, operating in independents processes and communicating through light interfaces. These features associated to cloud
RPA to automatically collect contacts over the web
To improve Berger-Levrault network, we work in collaboration with the sale department to collect the last news about DGS (Director General of Services) in France. The DGS is directly linked to the elected representative and insure the general coordination of services to implement municipality’s projects. This strategic position embodies the management of a regional government.When
A Federated Learning Framework for IoT
There are thousands of institutions like hospitals collecting private and sensitive data, which mean they can not be transferred to be used. Though federated learning needs data to be trained. As we can not send them to a database like this (unprotected, non-confidential), a solution has been thought: each institution will locally train a model
BL.Predict, the clairvoyant of maintenance for Le Havre city
Imagine you won the lottery (yes, we all dream about it) and bought Versailles castle. You can not remember if you closed the bathroom tap on the other wing of the castle. Do not worry, you do not have to walk ten minutes long, you just have to check your phone app which will let
BL.Exchange, a solution to make softwares relationship friendly
Nowadays, the IT market is made of thousands apps with even more software options. Organizations are using different kind of apps with distinct sets up which evolves really fast for different purposes. In addition, the apps are developed according to technical standards that are constantly evolving. This context makes the communication between apps difficult. Though,
BL.SenseLife MVP
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a first version of a new product with enough features to address the most important needs of users and customers, who can next provide feedback for future evolutions. It is basically the first implementation of an idea into a deployable and marketable solution with its mains functionalities. We have
Casino, a tool to migrate applications
For five years now, our team is working on the preparation to migrate Berger-Levrault’s apps. To ease framework’s transition to new standards, we created Casino. A homemade tool to assist in future migrations. Casino, what’s that? It’s an innovative tool to simplify the migration process by automatically transforming apps code. We explain below the four
Back on SemEval 16th edition task n°8
Find about our work on SemEval task n°1: reverse dictionary SemEval is a series of international Natural Language Processing (NLP) research workshops whose mission is to advance the current state of the art in semantic analysis and to help create high-quality annotated datasets in a range of increasingly challenging problems in natural language semantics. Each
Back on SemEval 16th edition task n°1
SemEval is a series of international Natural Language Processing (NLP) research workshops whose mission is to advance the current state of the art in semantic analysis and to help create high-quality annotated datasets in a range of increasingly challenging problems in natural language semantics. Each year’s workshop features a collection of shared tasks in which
Neolink: Lifelong pathway recommendation model
Find information about the project’s challenges by following this link. Neolink is a company created in 2012 which developed solution to encourage the internet that brings together. Its main objective is to unify economic activity and social utility in its solutions. The company has been bought by Berger-Levrault in 2019. Social services are notoriously complex
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
