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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Herrero Cosío, Álvaro author Jiménez, Alfredo author Alcalde Delgado, Roberto author 2021-03 Firms face an increasingly complex economic and financial environment in which the access to international networks and markets is crucial. To be successful, companies need to understand the role of internationalization determinants such as bilateral psychic distance, experience, etc. Cutting-edge feature selection methods are applied in the present paper and compared to previous results to gain deep knowledge about strategies for Foreign Direct Investment. More precisely, evolutionary feature selection, addressed from the wrapper approach, is applied with two different classifiers as the fitness function: Bagged Trees and Extreme Learning Machines. The proposed intelligent system is validated when applied to real-life data from Spanish Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). These data were extracted from databases belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism, and Trade. As a result, interesting conclusions are derived about the key features driving to the internationalization of the companies under study. This is the first time that such outcomes are obtained by an intelligent system on internationalization data. 2376-5992 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7234 10.7717/peerj-cs.403 2376-5992 Evolutionary feature selection Bagged decision trees Extreme learning machines Internationaliza-tion Multinational enterprises Advanced feature selection to study the internationalization strategy of enterprises