Zhangxi Lin

TL;DR: A dynamic game model for online traders and a profit maximization model for the escrow service provider are proposed and a numerical study based on the theoretical analysis is conducted to provide detailed guidelines of the model application for an escrowService provider and to explore if theEscrow service is a viable business model in C2C auction markets.

TL;DR: A novel product review domain-aware (PRDA) approach is conceived that identifies effective influencers and categorizes them into three types, i.e., emerging influencer, holding influencers, and vanishing Influencers, based on their popularity status across the life cycle.

TL;DR: The relationship (duplicate, generalization, or specialization) between recommended news articles and the original posting is investigated and the proposed solutions provide an improved news recommendation service in forum-based social media.

TL;DR: An integrated trust model specifically for the online P2P lending context is developed to better understand the critical factors that drive lenders’ trust and provides valuable insights for both borrowers and intermediaries.

TL;DR: A semi-supervised system that exploits two opportunities: the improvement of classification performance through the use of a few labeled instances and numerous unlabeled instances, and the effectiveness of the social characteristics of e-commerce communities as identifiers of influential reviewers who write high-quality reviews.