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Circular economy and Collaborative Networks: The Future of Asset Management
The global economy is shifting toward sustainability, driven by environmental urgency, regulatory demands, and evolving consumer expectations. Businesses are increasingly adopting circular economy principles, moving away from the linear “take, make, waste” model to systems that extend product lifecycles, minimize waste, and optimize resource use [Rejeb et al., 2025]. This transition aligns with the rise of Industry 5.0 (I5.0), which prioritizes sustainability, resilience, and human-centric collaboration. The integration of circular
Information extraction from Berger-Levrault books and articles
Historically, Berger-Levrault has been a publisher of legal and practical books and articles. The articles are on line and come from Légibases. Exploiting the knowledge contained in these texts is difficult. This is why it is necessary to structure the knowledge so that it can be accessed quickly. Berger-Levrault develops software solutions specialized in Automatic
A Modest first step in Test Generation
In the field of software development, code testing is a paramount task that should never be overlooked. At Berger-Levrault, we take this responsibility seriously and enforce a strict policy that includes the establishment of continuous integration (CI) and quality gates in our SonarQube server. Testing not only supports various developer activities, but also serves as
Boubou Thiam Niang Ph.D. thesis defense : “A Model-Driven Engineering and Software Product Line Approach to Support Interoperability in Evolving Systems of Information Systems”
Tuesday 28th of March at 10h a.m. Paris time, Boubou Thiam Niang, Ph.D. Candidate will defend his thesis named “A Model-Driven Engineering and Software Product Line Approach to Support Interoperability in Evolving Systems of Information Systems”. His thesis defense will take place at the conference room of the Faculty “IUT Lumière Lyon 2” in Bron,
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
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
