Mobile-enabled location-based services are generating a huge amount of customer checkin
data every day. It is vital to understand how small businesses, like restaurants, use this real …

The mobile applications (apps) market is one of the most successful software markets. As
the platform grows rapidly, with millions of apps and billions of users, search costs are …

The establishment of connections among social network users using their profile information
is an important task in social network analysis, which facilitates the development of various …

With the rapid development of computing devices and the improved Internet access, our
daily lives and business world have been dramatically reshaped. While technology allows …

In this dissertation, we study three link formation problems in mobile and economic
networks:(i) company matching for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) network in the high …