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CFP: 3rd NASA Wkshp on Planning/Scheduling
Rao,
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-kanna
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3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space
October 27-29, 2002
Houston Texas USA
http://www.planning.systems.org
This workshop is the third in a regular series that started in October
1997 at Oxnard California. The last workshop was in March 2000 in San
Francisco California and had an attendance of nearly 100 people. During
that time, automated planning and scheduling has become increasingly
important to NASA. The missions that NASA is contemplating in the near
future will require significant levels of autonomy over long periods of
time. Central to this autonomy will be long-running planning and
scheduling systems, checked by humans only periodically. There are
still many challenges facing the planning and scheduling community as it
strives to meet NASA's long-range needs. These include:
- Deployment: Deploying planning and scheduling technology raises
concerns with respect to speed, size, verification, responsiveness,
and costs (both cost/benefits and cost of deployment).
- Distributed planning and scheduling: Many planned missions will not be
limited to a single spacecraft or robot. Multiple, coordinated
spacecraft or robots will become commonplace. As will coordination
amongst distributed subsystems of large spacecrafts such as the
International Space Station. Planning and scheduling systems will
need to coordinate distributed assets as well as be distributed
themselves.
- Continuous planning and execution: Long-duration missions such as
deep-space probes, the International Space Station or a Mars rover
require continuous planning and re-planning to account for changing
conditions. Execution of plans will be concurrent with planning.
This workshop aims to discuss these, and related, issues in the context
of space missions and applications. We welcome papers that offer
insight into these, and other, planning and scheduling challenges. We
especially 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 missions. Example applications include: 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;
scheduling of critical resources whether on the ground or on-board;
science data analysis; design and analysis of spacecraft systems;
planning and scheduling of scientific experiments; and planning and
scheduling of crew activities. We also welcome papers on new planning
and scheduling technology that may be applicable to space domains, and
for papers that integrate planning and scheduling with other techniques,
such as verification and validation, machine learning, task execution,
and fault detection and diagnosis.
Special Topic: Human interaction with planners/schedulers
In addition to papers on planning and scheduling advances, we invite
participants who have an interest in human interaction with planning and
scheduling systems, even if they might not consider themselves in the
planning/scheduling community. For example, natural language
researchers are invited to present their ideas on integrating their work
with planners or schedulers. In the same vein, human factors
researchers, cognitive psychologists, user interface designers and
researchers in related fields are invited to submit papers. These
papers must address the issues of human (spacecraft crew, ground
personnel, or scientist) interaction with planning/scheduling systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Increasing crew or scientist understanding of planning/scheduling
through plan inspectability, plan explanation and innovative display
design. This is especially important when the planner/ scheduler is
unable to construct a plan for the given initial conditions.
- Mixed-initiative planning, in which automated software and the crew
collaborate to create plans.
- Facilities to easily add (or remove) domain and constraint information
and to understand the resulting implications.
- Strategies for automatically determining the completion of manual
tasks for plan execution monitoring.
These papers will be reviewed separately and assigned commentators from
the planning/scheduling community (see below). We will have a panel
discussion and an invited speaker devoted to this special topic.
Workshop Organization
This workshop will strive to bring together technologists, researchers,
and end-users of planning/scheduling technology. To encourage
interaction among these groups, we will continue the commentary format
of the previous workshops. The program committee will review all
submitted papers for acceptance at the workshop. Accepted papers will
be further categorized into plenary and poster presentations. For each
of the plenary papers, a commentator will be selected from a different
community than that of the paper's authors. The commentator will be
encouraged to have a dialogue with the authors and will then write a
short commentary on the paper, which will be presented with the paper
and will be published in the proceedings. The commentary is not a
review or critique, but simply a way to encourage interaction between
different communities. Papers selected for poster presentations will
also be published in full in the proceedings, but will not have
commentary. The workshop will also include panel discussions, invited
speakers from NASA JSC and elsewhere and tours of NASA JSC.
Timetable
Submission deadline: June 7, 2002
Authors notified: July 19, 2002
Commentator period: July 26 to September 20, 2002
Camera-ready papers and commentaries: September 20, 2002
Dates of workshop: October 27 to October 29, 2002
Organizing Committee
David Kortenkamp NASA JSC/Metrica (Chair)
Bob Savely NASA JSC
Debra Schreckenghost NASA JSC/Metrica
Rich Washington NASA ARC/RIACS
Program Committee
Tony Barrett JPL Pete Bonasso NASA JSC (chair)
Amedeo Cesta IP-CNR Brian Drabble University of Oregon
Tara Estlin JPL George Ferguson University of Rochester
Maria Fox Durham University Keith Golden NASA Ames
Mark Giuliano STScI Tony Griffith NASA JSC
Sanford Krasner JPL David Musliner Honeywell Technology Center
Karen Myers SRI International Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University
Ben Smith JPL David E. Smith NASA Ames
Milind Tambe USC/ISI Gerard Verfaillie ONERA
Paper Submission
Papers of up to ten pages in length (12 point Times Roman font),
preferably in Microsoft Word format, should be submitted electronically
by June 7, 2002 to the conference administrative director:
Tom Nicodemus, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research
281 286 1555
nicodemus@systems.org
Questions about this CFP should be directed to the chair of the
organizing committee:
David Kortenkamp, NASA JSC/Metrica Inc.
281 483 2740
kortenkamp@jsc.nasa.gov