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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
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
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
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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
