Special issue on “Current progress of intelligent technologies for manufacturing society”

Artificial intelligence and related technologies are now dominant in most of the research areas mainly on manufacturing industry. Current research is enormously growing especially onmeta-heuristics. There are huge volume of research results on manufacturing provided in the literature. That is one of the main reason for most of the papers submitted to this special issue cover meta-heuristic based studies. The progress not only on meta heuristics but also on all other AI related technologies points out both theoretical and applicational outcomes. It is now very clear to manufacturing society as well all others that the studies on intelligent systems provide alternative methodologies on how to increase the level of technology and to make it more effective for the benefit of the society. These studies opens the technological progress and research highway along with the following capabilities.