Topics

Papers published in this workshop series are in all areas of planning, scheduling, execution, and knowledge acquisition relating to aerospace systems. Additionally, papers also focuses on the below topics:

  • Operational challenges of space applications: These are challenging problems currently solved by humans, which typically involve optimizing science returns in the face of mission cost and resource limitations, responding to unanticipated events, and operating in a partially understood environment.
  • Issues in deployment: Gaining mission acceptance of a planning and scheduling technology involves balancing the promise of a new technology with the need for safety, reliability, and usability. This includes the representation’s understandability, controllability of the underlying algorithms, interfaces to other tools, as well as the user interface.
  • Past and current deployments: There have been a number of past infusions of planning and scheduling technologies into missions, and each resulted in lessons learned when overcoming deployment obstacles as well as system use during the mission.
  • Recent advances in planning and scheduling and plan execution: These include advances in domain representation, algorithmic methods, verification, and embedded architectures for planning, scheduling, and plan execution applicable to space missions.

The aim of the workshop series is also to discuss these and other related issues in the context of space missions and applications. Papers that offer insight into these and other planning and scheduling challenges are also welcome. IWPSS specially welcome papers that describe deployed applications of planning and scheduling technology within space or space-relevant domains and papers that describe requirements for planning and scheduling in future. Example applications include:

  • control of life support systems;
  • robotic assembly and construction;
  • spacecraft commanding and payload operations;
  • planning and scheduling for process control;
  • planning and scheduling for robotic space activities;
  • operations of air, space and ground-based scientific observatories;
  • planning and scheduling for sensor webs;
  • scheduling of critical resources on the ground and on-board;
  • science data analysis;
  • design and analysis of spacecraft systems;
  • planning and scheduling of scientific experiments; and planning and scheduling of crew activities.

IWPSS also welcome papers on new planning and scheduling technology that may be applicable to space domains and papers that integrate planning and scheduling with other techniques, such as:

  • planning and scheduling with time constraints;
  • planning and scheduling with uncertainty and resources;
  • mixed-initiative problem solving; robustness and fault tolerant schedules;
  • robust optimization;
  • and task execution.