Authors: Roger Guimerà, Alejandro Llorente, Esteban Moro y Marta Sales-Pardo
Journal: PLoS ONE 7, e44620 (2012) LINK
Abstract: With ever-increasing available data, predicting individuals' preferences and helping them locate the most relevant information has become a pressing need. Understanding and predicting preferences is also important from a fundamental point of view, as part of what has been called a “new” computational social science. Here, we propose a novel approach based on stochastic block models, which have been developed by sociologists as plausible models of complex networks of social interactions. ...