Power Indices in the Context of Social Learning Behaviour in Social Networks

Figure 6

Influence of professionalism on power indices. Voters in the social network shown in Figure 4 play a repeated voting game—in which they have social learning behaviours through observing their neighbors—with voter ’s professional level rising from to . To make it clearer, only changes in power indices () of voter 1, voter 3, voter 5, voter 7, and voter 9 are shown. The changes in power indices improve with the professional level increasing, except for the isolated nodes.