cooperativly

In this paper we investigate the learning of cooper-ation and communication in a multi agent system. A predator prey pursuit domain is dened in which predators can learn to both non-cooperatively and cooperatively capture prey. We then study the in u-ence of communication on a predator's choice to co-operate. Communication will be learned based on its enhancement of cooperation. We show that the de-veloped communicative abilities allow the predators to make a more optimal choice between the coopera-tive and non-cooperative behaviour.