2021 International Workshop on Planning & Scheduling for Space

This workshop is the 12th in a regular series that started in 1997 at Oxnard, California and included San Francisco (2000), Houston (2002), Darmstadt, Germany (2004), Baltimore (2006), Pasadena (2009, co-located with IJCAI 2009), Darmstadt (2011, near ICAPS 2011), Moffett Field (2013, near the 2013 AAAI Spring Symposium), Buenos Aires (2015, co-located with IJCAI 2015, Pittsburgh (2017, co-located with ICAPS 2017), Berkeley (2019, co-located with ICAPS 2019), and virtually in (2021, temporally adjacent to ICAPS 2021) .

For information and proceedings of previous meetings see the IWPSS main website .

In over 20 years since the first workshop in the series, planning and scheduling systems have been successfully deployed to mission ground systems as well as onto spacecraft. In many cases, these deployments have documented cost reduction, increased science returns, and enabling new types of scientific observations. Yet, future missions still do not consider automation by default. An improved infusion process is motivated by the need for planning and scheduling technologies to support an increasingly large, complex suite of missions at ever shrinking costs. This will be even more acute as net-centric observatories emerge. This workshop will specifically focus on ways to infuse planning and scheduling technologies into the evolving set of operational space missions.

The topics covered in this workshop will be of particular interest to scientists involved in space engineering, in Artificial Intelligence, and also to those who work in other, non space-related disciplines, which intersect with techniques with planning & scheduling for space. The intention of the workshop organizers is to stimulate the exchange of ideas between these groups, providing the former with new tools, and the latter two with incentive for continuing their research with space applications in mind.