Multiagent Manufacturing Scheduling: An Updated State of the Art Review

This paper is an updated review of the state of the art in distributed multiagent based scheduling as one element of intelligent manufacturing. It re-examines the most relevant previous reviews and details open research questions and directions proposed by other researchers. It highlights some of the recent publications in multiagent based scheduling in terms of these previously identified research areas and questions. The paper is concluded by outlining the extent to which recent literature addresses these areas to provide directions for future work.