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From Discovery to Business Impact Assessment: A User-Centered Method for Analyzing Generative AI
Introduction The emergence of generative artificial intelligence, and more specifically chatbots, marks a turning point in the recent history of digital technology. Unlike many professional innovations that were adopted gradually, these tools have spread particularly rapidly among the general public. Their ability to generate content, search for information, assist with writing, and support problem-solving has quickly led many users to integrate them into their daily activities. This widespread adoption now
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
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
52nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications – SEAA 2026 (Krakow – Poland)
Franco-German Dialogue Among AI Industry Leaders (Paris – France)
PMS 2026 – 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (Toulouse – France)
ICPC – 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)
CHI 2026 – International conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Barcelona – Spain)
Sophie de Thoré guest on Pari ETI on BFM Business: Innovation, Growth and Digital Transformation
The digital transformation of public and private organisations, business resilience in the face of economic change, and responsible innovation were the focus of discussions on the Pari ETI programme broadcast on BFM Business. On this occasion, Sophie de Thoré spoke on behalf of Berger-Levrault, alongside Jérôme de Lavergnolle (Saint Louis), Jean-Luc Gunéard (LPR) and Augustin
A New Milestone in Building a European AI Ecosystem for Industry
Last Friday marked a significant step forward for the European ecosystem of artificial intelligence applied to industry. After more than a year of close collaboration, the report resulting from the Franco-German dialogue on industrial AI was officially presented to French and German authorities during a dedicated forum held at the Ministry of Economy. This initiative,
Yearbook Research & Innovation 2025: Governed, Responsible, and reality-based Research!
We are proud to announce the publication of our 2025 Research & Innovation Yearbook! More than just an annual review, this document marks a structural shift in the way we design and conduct research. Innovation is no longer seen as a simple technological promise, but as a demanding discipline, confronted with the constraints of reality
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
