The use of MAS, even with ant colony, has an important benefit that is to take profit from its interaction models(possibility to cooperate, to negociate, ..), its communication languages, ..

Hakima Mellah yes it is clear, but is there an improvement in the final result? in scheduling for example..

Amal

There must be an improvement since with MAS you have means to negociate, cooperate, that do not exist whithin ant colony alone. You must ask yourself on the existance of works that enforce ant colonies with MAS. The conclusion is that MAS are generally used to facilitate Ant colony communication and automation.

Hope this will help you

Hakima

Hakima Mellah thanks a lot