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International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems

IEA/AIE 2015: Current Approaches in Applied Artificial Intelligence pp 171–178Cite as

Multi-Criteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence for Competitive Intelligence

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In this paper, we started by showing that artificial intelligence and multi-criteria decision aid are two closely concepts that could benefit from each other. Then, we propose to use this relation and complementarity to deal with competitive intelligence problem and issues. A discussion towards building the foundations of new domain knowledge named the multi-criteria intelligence aid (MCIA) is presented.

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  1. RIADI Laboratory, National School of Computer Science, La Manouba, Tunisia

    Dhekra Ben Sassi, Wahiba Ben AbdessalemKaraa & Naoufel Kraiem

  2. Departmental Unit of Management Sciences, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Levis, Rimouski, Canada

    Anissa Frini

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  2. Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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Sassi, D.B., Frini, A., AbdessalemKaraa, W.B., Kraiem, N. (2015). Multi-Criteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence for Competitive Intelligence. In: Ali, M., Kwon, Y., Lee, CH., Kim, J., Kim, Y. (eds) Current Approaches in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19066-2_17

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