Impact of density and interconnectedness of influential players on social welfare

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Highlights：

• Influential players may promote cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas.

• Influential players must be rare and weakly interconnected for cooperation to thrive.

• Influential players enhance network reciprocity.

摘要

•Influential players may promote cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas.•Influential players must be rare and weakly interconnected for cooperation to thrive.•Influential players enhance network reciprocity.

论文关键词：Evolutionary games,Networks,Cooperation,Social welfare,Spatial reciprocity

论文评审过程：Available online 29 October 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.10.044