It is well established in the literature that customer retention is at least as important as customer acquisition, especially in the freemium-based virtual economy, in which individuals are connected by multi-relational social networks, such as the “friendships” and “guilds” (virtual...

"This book examines the foremost techniques of hidden link predictions in stochastic social networks. It deals, principally, with methods and approaches that involve similarity index techniques, matrix factorization, reinforcement models, graph representations and community detections"--

We build a model of network dynamics with decision-making under incomplete information in order to understand the determinants of the observed gradual downgrading of expert opinion on complicated issues and the decreasing trust in science. We suggest a search and matching mechanism behind...