Amos A. David

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Lorraine

Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are a major public health concern worldwide, particularly in Nigeria, where road transport is the most common mode of transportation. This study presents the geo-parsing approach for geographic information extraction (IE) of RTC incidents from news articles. We developed two custom, spaCy-based, RTC domain-specific named...

Many businesses have been positively impacted by electronic commerce (ecommerce). It has enabled enterprises and consumers transact business digitally and experience diversity as long as the internet is accessible and there is a gadget to surf the internet. Several governments have gradually adopted electronic payment throughout the country. The Ni...

Works in big data processing have popularized the data-driven approach to decisional-problem solving. The belief is that the more information, the more relevant the use for decisional-problem solving. However, in decisional-problem solving, there are two crucial phases: decisional-problem finding and decisional-problem solving. In this paper, we fo...

Many businesses have been positively impacted by electronic commerce (ecommerce). It has enabled enterprises and consumers transact business digitally and experience diversity as long as the internet is accessible and there is a gadget to surf the internet. Several governments have gradually adopted electronic payment throughout the country. The Ni...

Electronic fraud is a problem that has become a source of concern for businesses of all sizes. Electronic fraud is increasing the margin of loss as criminals go beyond brick and mortar enterprises to target firms with an online presence and electronic payment methods. The purpose of this research paper is to propose a model which decision makers ca...

Electronic fraud is a problem that has become a source of concern for businesses of all sizes. Electronic fraud is increasing the margin of loss as criminals go beyond brick and mortar enterprises to target firms with an online presence and electronic payment methods. The purpose of this research paper is to propose a model which decision makers ca...

Organizations operating in todays' business environment are moving towards the use of data to improve decision making. Data analysis is not just the collecting of data but, the processing and visualization which is crucial for decision-makers to be able to obtain organizational benefits. There are mainly four types of data analysis: Descriptive dat...

In the knowledge domain of machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, etc., a feature which is sometimes called attribute, generally describes a particular aspect of data or object within the knowledge domain. Modelling is the process of creating a model which represents an object or system with its all or subset of properties mostly w...

Organizations operating in todays' business environment are moving towards the use of data to improve decision making. Data analysis is not just the collecting of data but, the processing and visualization which is crucial for decision makers to be able to obtain organizational benefits. There are mainly four types of data analysis: Descriptive dat...

Over the years, data scientists have made ground breaking achievements in solving problems by analyzing historical data and acquiring new findings, then, recommending solutions to several fields of endeavour, based on these new findings. As data scientists, there are lots of preliminary work, prior to data analysis, which greatly slow you down find...

A concept that is currently attracting much interest in the field of information science is the concept of Big Data. How does it relate to Knowledge Organization and to decision making? What are its opportunities and limits? These are some questions we try to answer in this paper. Big data is defined as a term applied to data sets whose size or typ...

It is impossible to discuss the current trend in data modeling and information systems without discussing the evolution in computer technology. Internet technology, cloud technology, big data technology have enhanced greatly advances in data modeling techniques and the extension of information systems to embrace decision-support functionalities. Th...

All living entities (from individuals to socioeconomic organizations) make decisions, employing of one or more decision making processes. In this paper, we are concerned with rational decision making process. This choice is based on the fact that rational decision making process depends heavily on the use of information and the process has attracte...

This paper adopts the concepts of observatory and competitive intelligence (CI) to model a system that will generate better insights for decision-makers in the solid waste industry. The first part of this work is to design and develop a data warehouse (DWH) of solid waste statistics using data assembled from disparate sources. Our methodology of de...

The amount of information in term of documents, available to users as a result of information retrieval process for the purpose of resolution of decision problems is a major factor that determines whether economically viable decisions would be made or not. Various works in the literature had addressed the challenges of representing the documents wi...

In most search systems, mapping queries with documents employs techniques such as vector space model, naïve Bayes, Bayesian theorem etc. to classify resulting documents. In this research studies, we are proposing the use of the concept of basic categories to representing the user's level of knowledge based on the concepts he employed during his sea...

The central object of this topic is Information Technology (IT). However, the concern is not to present what IT is because the addressed audience is composed of experts in IT. The presentation will focus on the exploitation of IT, developing WHY IT should be exploited and HOW in relation to entrepreneurship and wealth creation. Simple and concrete...

The development of a research, teaching, or application of competitive (economic) intelligence requires a strategic and transverse vision in regards to related issues. It is essential to integrate the role of culture when interpreting results, either from the training of a specialist or in respect to a country or region. The authors of this book, m...

An application’s conceptual model is the “mental map" that the designers employ to present information logically. A hallmark of usable design is when both the designer’s conceptual model and the end users’ conceptual models are in alignment. In this paper, we present the User and Usage Constraints in Information Systems Development as applicable to...

The final goal of Information Retrieval (IR) is knowledge production. However, it has been argued that knowledge production is not an individual effort but a collaborative effort. Collaboration in information retrieval is geared towards knowledge sharing and creation of new knowledge by users. This paper discusses Collaborative Information Retrieva...

Knowledge is attributed to human whose problem-solving behavior is subjective and complex. In today's knowledge economy, the need to manage knowledge produced by a community of actors cannot be overemphasized. This is due to the fact that actors possess some level of tacit knowledge which is generally difficult to articulate. Problem-solving requir...

This paper presents annotation specification as attribute-value pair for representing and capturing strategic information for solving decision problems in the context of Economic Intelligence (also referred to as competitive intelligence). The aim of using this approach is to facilitate information reuse for similar problems. While most of availabl...

The development of a research, teaching or application of strategic watch or competitive intelligence requires a strategic and transverse vision of the problem. It is essential to know the role of culture in order to interpret the results, either from the training of a specialist or in respect of a country or region. An expert group, supported by t...

Two popular views about the concept of information are the "information as a process" and "information as a product". While there has been much research about the two paradigms, one recurrent question has been where is the place of interpretation in information utilization? A growing trend is the concept of annotation which encourages individual in...

A fuzzy logic based Quality of Service (QoS) brokering model for e-commerce to manage system and network resources is presented in this study. This model takes into consideration limited bandwidth between clients and their Internet Service Providers; and similarly the client’s system capabilities. The QoS brokering system was modelled, developed, a...

In this paper, we explain a user centered approach to collaborative information retrieval where the focus is not only on the system but on the users' interactions in solving an information problem. Our approach consists in facilitating knowledge sharing among users during information retrieval process through annotation and interpersonal communicat...

One of the characteristics of this age -information and knowledge age -is information overload and increase in multimedia information. Managing the increasing growth of multimedia information still poses some problems. The challenge is to propose relevant information to users among the large volume of multimedia information. Our approach consists i...

Knowledge representation is an essential criterion to capitalization of knowledge in organizations. There is need for organizations to employ strategic methods to ensure optimal innovation and effective decision making. Thus, Economic Intelligence proffers strategy to facilitate effective decision making through collection, treatment and use of rel...

Contrairement à d'autres pays tels que le Brésil ou la France qui ont su identifier le cercle vertueux généré par le concept de triple hélice résidant dans la mise en réseau de l'Etat, du secteur industriel et des universités, l'intelligence compétitive ne fait l'objet d'aucune politique publique dans certains pays d'Afrique tels que le Nigéria. Dè...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has practically penetrated into all spheres of life. Therefore a closer look at the impact of ICT in public financial management and performance is highly justified. Public finance is defined as a field of economics concerned with paying for collective or governmental activities, and with the adminis...

Knowledge sharing has become a household name in many organizations and communities. Our concern is on how to facilitate knowledge sharing in Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR). In CIR, there exist various types of knowledge that can be shared among users. In this paper we highlighted these knowledge and the CIR activities in which they can...

In this paper we present collaborative information retrieval (CIR) for decision making. We take Economic Intelligence (EI) as application domain and we propose an approach for managing CIR among actors in the domain. EI process has information as a central object. In EI, we consider the translation of a decision making problem to information search...

Les langages d'indexation sont des outils d'aide à la recherche d'information. Ils comportent des concepts (ou vedettes) liés les uns aux autres par des relations sémantiques hiérarchiques ou d'association. Dans cette communication, nous procédons à l'analyse macroscopique des interactions entre concepts du domaine de l'information communication. L...

Managing the increasing growth of multimedia content still poses some problems. The challenge is to propose relevant information to the users among the large volume of information available. The main idea that drives our approach is to provide an open information retrieval system, which can adapt its results to several…La gestion de l’information m...

The information universe from a company point of view has changed in the last fifteen years. In fact, companies are many that are aware of the strategic information dimension. Thus, some years ago, when we talk about information management in enterprise, we talk implicitly about the documentation chain. Nowaydays, many others information approaches...

The search for information still depends on the knowledge available on the information sought and their uses. Founded on the principle of search content, the knowledge available on the information sought will result in the specification of information needs, often in the form of research equation. This principle applies regardless of the search age...

The exponential growth of multimedia information and the development of various communication media generated new problems at various levels including the rate of flow of information, problems of storage and management. The difficulty which arises is no longer the existence of information but rather the access to this information. When designing mu...

The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted according to the query and the results are perhaps not relevant to the users’ needs. This situation is even more problematic when non expert users have difficulties in exp...

Cette étude porte sur l'intégration des besoins des utilisateurs dans la définition de modes de visualisation pour suivre l'évolution des connaissances scientifiques. Notre objectif consiste à optimiser le message véhiculé par les représentations graphiques et dynamiques en proposant de prendre en compte les objectifs et les attentes des utilisateu...

Within the framework of our studies, we regard economic intelligence as a scientific object. Thus, it is not sufficient to consider only the definitions of the concept for its comprehension. In our approach, we regard economic intelligence as a process. This process is composed of the stages of identification of a decisional problem, translation of...

The objective of most users for consulting any information database, information warehouse or the internet is to resolve one problem or the other. Available online or offline annotation tools were not conceived with the objective of assisting users in their bid to resolve a decisional problem. Apart from the objective and usage of annotation tools,...

Automatic text analysis widened the perspective of work on document contents by opening up the studies on the linguistic productions. In this case, we are using annotation as a case study. In our approach, annotation is defined as textual, graphic or sound information, attached to document source (text, photo, audio sequence or video sequence : mul...

Nous pensons que les problématiques liées au processus d'intelligence économique (problématiques liées au processus décisionnel, au processus de collecte d'information, à la pertinence de l'information, à la protection du patrimoine informationnel, à l'utilisation de l'information) peuvent trouver des solutions plus adaptées, plus facilement et plu...

This study examines users’ requirements for integrating them on visualization techniques adapted for scientific knowledge evolution. Our aim consists in optimizing the message conveyed by graphic and dynamic representations through user’s goals and expectations comprehension.Cette étude porte sur l’intégration des besoins des utilisateurs dans la d...

Annotation tools are becoming increasingly important in information research, information management and collaborative works. Annotation can be conceptualized to assist in the “collection, processing and distributing of useful information for the economic actors” (Economic intelligence) with the aim of facilitating the integration of two fields of...

Multimedia information is rich and complex considering its heterogeneous nature: video, audio, text. A representation of this type of information based on its contents and its structure can allows for a high level of precision of description. The relevance of response will be still better if the representation takes into considerations the informat...

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There is a growing importance of business intelligence system (BIS) use in the new economy and enterprise environment which is characterised by uncertainty and ambiguity. Admittedly, in enterprise strategic management domain, the place of economic intelligence (EI) is given more and more interest to help decision makers in their strategic decisions...

We consider that the economic intelligence is the use of relevant information for the reduction of uncertainty in the strategic decision-making process. The business intelligence system, and particularly the strategic information system, represents an essential need to provide support to decision maker. However, some conditions must be realized to...

Our major undertaking relates to the modelling of Business Intelligence System (BIS) in term of functionalities for the decision-making process. We regard the BIS as a system that aids in decision-making and dedicated to strategic piloting of a firm. We define BIS as the complex set of Economic Intelligence Process (EI process), principal actors im...

The objective of this paper is to present some of the results of our studies on modelling, methods and tools for the implementation of Economic Intelligence (EI) process. We consider EI as a process in which three human actors play predominant roles in order to guaranty its success: the decision-maker, the watcher and the information system designe...

Our objective focuses on the "management of digital information and the coordination with value-added information". Information processing involves several disciplines whatever its nature or origin. These disciplines include automatic linguistic analysis, computer science, mathematics, information network, social economy, economic intelligence (EI)...

Le rôle de plus en plus prédominant de l'information dans le secteur économique et social et l'organisation en général n'est plus à démontrer. Les technologies de l'information et de la communication, en particulier l'informatique et l'Internet, permettent d'intégrer des informations de sources et de natures différentes. Par exemple, on peut employ...

The notion of information interpretation allowed the integration of the complexities linked to the process of Economic Intelligence as well as clarifying the perimeters of some models employed for some pluridisciplinary problematic such as Information Retrieval Systems, user modelling, strategic information and Economic Intelligence (EI). This plur...

From a business point of view, the world of information has changed in the last fifteen years. Many companies are now aware of the strategic importance of information. Thus, some years ago, when we talked about information management in business, we were talking implicitly about the documentation chain. Nowadays, many other approaches can be identi...

Le monde de l'information, du point de vue des entreprises, a bien changé ces quinze dernières années. En effet, les entreprises sont de plus en plus nombreuses à prendre conscience de la dimension stratégique de l'information. Ainsi, il y a encore quelques années, lorsqu'il était question de gestion de l'information en entreprise, il était fait im...

Résumé Dans une démarche de veille économique, le système d'information, en général, et l'entrepôt de données, en particulier, sont des outils essentiels. Dès lors qu'un niveau acceptable de qualité des données est assuré, quels sont les risques qui subsistent lors de l'exploitation effective de ces sources d'informations, qui pourraient avoir des...

Les demandeurs d'information et plus particulièrement les décideurs se trouvent confrontés à un environnement de plus en plus complexe caractérisé par la globalisation et la mondialisation des échanges et par l'émergence de technologies innovantes, les obligeant ainsi à prendre des décisions rapidement et à innover. Aussi, l'accessibilité grandissa...

The impact of Information and Communication Technologies in everyday live is established. This is more pronounced particularly in the field of telecommunications such as mobile communications and Internet. This phenomenon is due to the possibility of dematerializing more and more real live objects as well as human activities. In this paper, we exam...

The infomediary takes an increasingly significant place in the information society and more particularly in the activity of economic intelligence (EI). Even if his objectives are well established, the various necessary activities to achieve them are to be clarified. Also in the digital era where automated tools are omnipresent, it is necessary to e...

In the economic intelligence context where many events are unpredictable, the decision maker's aim is to modify favourably his interactions with the enterprise environment. These interactions allow him to have a better understanding of the environment, to anticipate the changes and to clarify the strategic decision. In that context, information and...

Si nous simplifions ; toutte recherche d'informations peut être résolue lorsque le besoin informationnel qu'elle implique est identifié à travers son expression. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux critères utilisés afin d'aider à réaliser de bonnes expressions de problèmes de recherche d'information. Nous avons listé ces critères à travers quelques pr...

Cet article présente une approche de recherche sur les Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, limitées aux Systèmes d'Informations Stratégiques pour améliorer la prise de décision dans un contexte d'intelligence économique. L'objectif de notre approche est d'étudier les deux modèles : modèle d'explicitation d'un problème décisionnel...

This work presents a model of the decision-maker's problem in the economic intelligence context. Our goal is to describe the decision-maker's problem as explicitly as possible in order to help the watcher understand the real information need of the decision-maker. Our model takes into account three data categories: the environmental data, the organ...

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L'activité de veille, au sein du processus d'Intelligence Economique, est principalement une activité de résolution de problème de recherche d'information. Cette activité de veille est réalisée par le veilleur qui doit localiser, surveiller, valider et mettre en valeur l'information stratégique, en collaboration avec le décideur qui doit formuler d...

Notre étude porte sur la constitution d'un pôle de ressources documentaires dans un cadre pédagogique destiné à la formation et à la recherche prenant en compte l'utilisateur. Nous sommes dans un environnement de formation où évoluent des acteurs, des systèmes de ressources documentaires, des systèmes de production d'information et des systèmes de...

Summary : The watcher's activity within the process of economic intelligence is essentially an activity of information search problem solving. This watcher's activity is done in collaboration with the decision-maker who should formulate his objectives as clearly as possible. In order to optimize the knowledge sharing between the watcher and the dec...

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In confusing and complex environments, the decision-maker needs several types of information to help him in his decision-making process. However, when the decision problem is complex and badly defined, the decision-maker may not be able to express his informational needs. This fact encourages us to help the decision-maker pose the good questions, i...

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Proceedings of the conference" Economic Intelligence : Research and Applications"

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The Web is one of the most powerful sources of information on any topic. However looking for scientific literature is a difficult task. Prior knowledge of link sites is necessary and if you are lucky they point to conferences proceedings available on-line. In fact the case the user is not able to make queries about the available documents and must...

The idea of personalizing the interactions of a system is not new.

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The idea of personalizing the interactions of a system is not new. With stereotypes the users are grouped into classes where all the users in a class have similar characteristics. Personalization was therefore not on individual basis but on a group of users. Personalized systems are also used in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and in information...

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The size of Internet has been growing very fast and many documents appear every day in the Net. Users find many problems to obtain the information that they really need. In order to help users in this task of finding relevant information, recommending systems were proposed. They give advice using two methods: the content-based method that extracts...

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