6th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space

July 19th – 21st, 2009
Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena, California, USA

This workshop is the sixth in a regular series that started in October 1997 at Oxnard and traveled to San Francisco (2000) and Houston (2002).  In 2004 it was held in Darmstadt, Germany, and then returned to the USA in Baltimore (2006).  This sixth workshop returns to Southern California, co-locating with IJCAI and SMC-IT, and continues to focus on the challenges and opportunities facing the planning and scheduling community when addressing the needs of a wide range of space-based applications. 

Over the past decade since the first workshop in this series, planning and scheduling systems have successfully found their way into a number mission ground systems as well as onto spacecraft.  In each case, a deployment has satisfied flight project needs including cost reduction, increased science returns, and enabling new types of scientific observations.  Still, a faster infusion process is motivated by the need for planning and scheduling technologies to support an increasingly large and complex suite of missions.  This will be even more acute as the science community starts perceiving the aggregate set of missions as a single coordinated sensor web.  This workshop’s objective is to better understand how we can infuse planning and scheduling research results into the evolving set of operational space missions. 

Questions? Send a message to iwpss09@smc-it.org.

Program Committee

Anthony Barrett (JPL)
Alice Berman (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab)
Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs)
Bradley Clement (JPL)
Alessandro Donati (ESA/ESOC)
Mark Giuliano (STScI)
Felix Ingrand (LAAS/CNRS)
Mark Johnston (JPL)
Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)
David Kortenkamp (TRACLabs)
Derek Long (Strathclyde)
Angelo Oddi (ISTC-CNR)
David Smith (NASA – Ames Research Center)
Stephen Smith (Carnegie Mellon University)
Gerard Verfaillie (ONERA)
Terri Wood (GSFC)