Comparing Communication Protocols under Cooperative Pressure

The effectiveness of coordination within a multi-agent system depends largely on the abilities of the agents to cooperate and communicate. In environments where coordination is essential for goal accomplishment, agents must thus appropriately communicate for cooperative task achievement. We investigate two communication protocols (centralised and distributed) in learning and non-learning agent societies. This work is part of a larger project whose main goal is to investigate the emergence of cooperation and communication in response of (scalable) environmental challenges.