Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Social Network DeGroot Model: Consensus and convergence speed -- Chapter 3. Consensus reaching through adding minimum interactions -- Chapter 4. Strategic Manipulations with trust relationships -- Chapter 5. Risk control in the evolution of public opinions...

The current study evaluates the fnancial innovation life cycle for renewable energy investments. A novel model is proposed that has two stages. First, the fnancial innovation life cycle is weighted by the two-generation technology S-curve (TTSC) for renewable energy investments. Second, the TTSC...

A clustering-based undersampling (CUS) and distance-based near-miss method are widely used in current imbalanced learning algorithms, but this method has certain drawbacks. In particular, the CUS does not consider the influence of the distance factor on the majority of instances, and the...

This study provides a comprehensive review of machine learning (ML) applications in the fields of business and finance. First, it introduces the most commonly used ML techniques and explores their diverse applications in marketing, stock analysis, demand forecasting, and energy marketing. In...