Well, let me start off my first post by taking an inclusive definition of IR and including social networks as part of IR. (In fact, Aditya’s thesis is primarily based on the assertion that IR is generally a social activity rather than a database query).
There are these axioms in the theory of rational choice:
Rational [...]
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