Agent based manufacturing systems are being developed to model and develop control strategies. Material handling systems when modeled as part of agent based system require new strategies for bidding. This paper describes the development of a new scheduling strategy based on priority that can be used for scheduling of material handling systems.

This is the author's version of the article. The final publication is available at: http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1375033