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SMC-IT 2011
TOPICS OF INTEREST

Reliable Software

Autonomy & Automation
CubeSat Software

Space Cybersecurity
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SCHEDULE

OCTOBER 1, 2010
Call for Full Papers and Mini-Workshop Summaries

NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Author Submission Website Open

DECEMBER 31, 2010
Call for Full Papers and Mini-Workshop Summaries

MARCH 20, 2011
Author Acceptance Notification

MAY 19, 2011
Early Bird Registration Opens

MAY 19, 2011
Preliminary Program Announced

MAY 20, 2011
Camera Ready Manuscripts Due (incorporating reviewer comments) for upload to the IEEE CPS website

JULY 1, 2011
Regular Registration Opens

AUGUST 2 - 4, 2011
Conference

SMC-IT 2011 TOURS
(August 5, 2011)

USGS, Menlo Park Tour

 
NASA Ames Research Center Tour

 
Computer History Museum

 
Intel Museum (on your own)
 Intel Museum

 
Hiller Aviation Museum

Ames Wind TunnelCrowne Plaza Cabana HotelComputer-History-MuseumAmes Pleiades SupercomputerIntel 80 Core Teraflops Research Wafer
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MINI-WORKSHOP ON

AA-SES-V: AUTONOMIC AND AUTONOMOUS SPACE EXPLORATION SYSTEMS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT-2011), August 2 - 4, 2011, in Palo Alto, California, USA

Abstract:

Space missions require the use of complex hardware, software and embedded systems, often with hard realtime 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 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) communities.

Index Terms — Autonomy, Autonomicity, Self-Managing Systems, Space Exploration Systems

Organization:

Session Chair(s): Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk