Special Session on

Autonomic & Autonomous Space Exploration Systems 

(A&A-SES'05)

http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~autonomic/AA-SES/

 Session & Organizing Chairs

 Mike Hinchey
 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
 USA

 Roy Sterritt
 University of Ulster,
 Northern Ireland

 Submissions

 Formatting Instructions
 MS Word, PDF or PS documents to
 michael.g.hinchey@nasa.gov or
 r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk

 Important dates

 March 15, 2005 
 Submission of abstract or full papers

 March 21, 2005
 Notification of acceptance

 April 20, 2005
 Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
.

Space missions require the use of complex hardware, software and embedded systems, often with hard real-time requirements.   Most missions involve significant degrees of autonomous behavior, often over significant periods of time.   While missions typically have human monitors, many missions involve very little human intervention, and then often only in extreme circumstances.    It has been argued that Space Exploration Systems should be autonomic (self-managing) as well as autonomous (self-governing), and that all autonomous systems should be autonomic by necessity. Indeed, the trend is in that direction in forthcoming Space missions.  This technical session will present papers on research into Autonomicity and Autonomy for Space exploration missions.  With Autonomy and Autonomicity becoming mainstream within computing through such initiatives as Autonomic Computing, this session aims to be of general interest to both the Space and ICT communities.

CATEGORIES OF PAPERS:

     (RRP)  Regular Research Papers
            7-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.
            20-minute formal presentation slot.
     (RRR)  Regular Research Reports
            7-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.
            Presentation in an informal setting (during
            Discussion Sessions.)  Typically, those authors with
            language difficulties prefer this mode of
            presentation.
     (SRP)  Short Research Papers
            4-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.
            Presentation in an informal setting (during
            Discussion Sessions.)  Same presentation mode as
            RRR papers.
     (PST)  Posters
            1-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.
            Presentation in an informal setting (during
            Discussion Sessions.