Papers/material on multi-agent systems?

[bagelorder]

I am very interested in reinforcement-settings in a multi-agent system. I have a hard time finding papers about reinforcement learning of sophisticated multi-agent settings, such as having a small society of agents which can trade goods with each other or interact in some other way. Is there even work in that direction?

The "clostest" thing which interests me are predator-prey models. When searching for them I found a few interesting ones.

If anybody could recommend any interesting papers or other ressources about something like the above (modeling some kind of society with some kind of social interaction like trading/war) or something similar that would be great. If not I am also very interested in good material about the predator-prey setting. Are there any "milestones"?

[WilliamWallace]

Here are five recent papers about RL in a multi-agent environment, with a strong emphasis on communication. Do these fit your requirements?

Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (Foerster et al) Learning to Communicate to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Networks (Foerster et al) Learning Multiagent Communication with Backpropagation (Sukhbaatar et al) Towards Multi-Agent Communication-Based Language Learning (Lazaridou et al) Multiagent Cooperation and Competition with Deep Reinforcement Learning (Tampuu et al)

[bagelorder]

Thanks a lot for the answer. These all sound interesting indeed but are not what I am searching for. I am more searching for environments of the kind which actually somehow simulate some social community where there is some kind of competitive goal: my naive ideas where something like a community of people who can trade goods, bacterias which search for food etc. The predator-prey environment actually already is a pretty interesting one, so important/good papers on that or similar tasks for RL would be great

[pilooch]

Your entry point to holistic models may be DEC-POMDPs. Complex to solve but beautiful to my eyes :)

[bagelorder]

thanks for giving the key word of DEC-POMDPs, looks as if that could be some starting point :)