Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed both in a global and systematic way in this field: most authors focus on parts of the studied network, or on a few nodes considered individually. This could be explained by the fact that...

The investigation of link prediction in networks is an important issue in many disciplines. The research of prediction algorithms which required short time but high accuracy is still a challenging task. Most of the existing algorithms are based on the topological information of the networks,...