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2002

1. "Spike: A Dynamic Interactive Component In a Human-Computer Long-range Planning System", Leslie Zimmerman Foor & Drew J. Asson, to be presented at 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, October 27-29, 2002, Houston, Texas. (pdf)

1999

1. "A New Paradigm for User Support and Software Tools", Glenn Miller, Anuradha Koratkar, Dan Golombek, to be presented at ADASS '99. (abstract, viewgraphs, pdf)

2. "Long and Short Term Scheduling Tools in ESO", Gino Giannone (ESO), Alberto M. Chavan (ESO), David Silva (ESO), Anthony P. Krueger (STScI), Glenn E. Miller (STScI), to be presented at ADASS '99. (abstract, pdf)

3. "XML and Collaboration: The Common Observatory Definition Workgroup Prototype", Chris Burkhardt, Bob Jackson, Anuradha Koratkar, David Soderblom, to be presented at ADASS '99. (abstract)

4. "Adding Multiple Exposure Planning and Expert System Technology in the Scientist's Expert Assistant", Karl Wolf, Mark Fishman, Jeremy Jones, Sandy Grosvenor, Anuradha Koratkar, LaMont Ruley to be presented at ADASS '99. (abstract)

5. "Proposal Preparation Tools for Hubble Space Telescope's Second Decade: Challenges and Paradigm Changes", Anuradha Koratkar, Nicolas Bernstein, Rob Douglas, Andrew Gerb, Jeremy Jones, Karla Peterson, and Roeland Van der Marel to be presented at ADASS '99. (abstract)

6. "COSI: Adding Constraints to the Object-Oriented Paradigm.", The Trans Team, to be presented and published at the Lisp Users Group meeting, October 1999. (abstract, pdf)

7. "Coordinating Multiwavelength Campaigns Between Observatories", Karla Peterson, Nancy Evans (SAO), Beth Perriello, Bryce Roberts (JHU), Evan Smith (Hughes STX), Peg Stanley, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

8. "Evolution of the HST Proposal Selection Process", Meg Urry, Brett Blacker, Letizia Stanghellini, Roeland van der Marel, Glenn Miller, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

9. "Observation Scheduling Scheme for the Subaru Telescope", Toshiyuki Sasaki (Subaru/NAOJ), George Kosugi (Subaru/NAOJ), Jun A. Kawai (Fujitsu America), Toyoaki Kusumoto (Fujitsu America), Norikazu Koura (Fujitsu America), Rob Hawkins, Laurence Kramer, Anthony P. Krueger, and Glenn Miller submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract, paper)

10. "Service Mode Observing Tools at ESO's VLT", G. Giannone (ESO), A. M. Chavan (ESO), D. Silva (ESO); A. P. Krueger, G. E. Miller, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

11. "Multi-wavelength Time Allocation, the Wave of the Future", B. Blacker, D. Macchetto, C. Urry, and B. Wilkes, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

12. "A New Era for HST Phase I Development and Submission" B. Blacker, C. Burkhardt, A. Koratkar, and J. Younger, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

13. "Designing the Next Generation of User Support Tools: Methodology being adopted at Space Telescope Science Institute", Koratkar, Bernstein, Gerb, Jones, Peterson, and van der Marel, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

14. "Impact of Observing Constraints and Unplanned Events on Observatory Efficiency and Long Range Plan Stability", William Workman, submitted to the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return. (abstract)

15. "Generating a Long Range Plan for a New Class of Astronomical Observatories", Laurence Kramer, submitted to The Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning & Scheduling (AIPS2000). (abstract, paper )

1998

2. "Adaptive, Ground-Compatible Flight Software System", L. Petro, G. Miller, T. Krueger, R. Doxsey, V. Balzano, J. Barshinger (STScI), N. Jedrich, M. Paulkovich, L. Dunham, J. Borden (Jackson & Tull, Inc.), poster presentation at the SPIE International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Kona, March 1998. (abstract).

3. "Support Tools for the VLT Operations: the NTT Prototyping Experience", Alberto Maurizio Chavan (ESO), Gino Giannone (Serco), David Silva (ESO), Tony Krueger (STScI), Glenn Miller (STScI), in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 97-104. (abstract, pdf)

4. "Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions", Glenn Miller and Peg Stanley (STScI) in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 20-29. (abstract, pdf)

5. "User Support: Lessons Learned from HST", C. Odea, A. Koratkar and K. Peterson, in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 55-62. (pdf)

6. "Visualization Tools to Support Proposal Submission", Anuradha Koratkar, Sandy Grosvenor, Julie Breed, Lisa Dallas in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 441-449. (abstract, pdf)

7. "An Expert Assistant System to Support the General Observer Program for NGST", Tom Brooks, Lisa Dallas, Sandy Grosvenor, Jeremy Jones, Anuradha Koratkar, and LaMont Ruley, in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 450-455. (abstract)

8. "Electronic Submission of HST Phase I Proposals", Brett Blacker, Glenn Miller, Meg Urry, Harry Payne, and Drew Asson, in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 80-88. (pdf)

9. "Service Observing and Data Archiving: Some Lessons Learned From HST", Anuradha Koratkar, Ray Lucas, Stefano Casertano, Megan Donahue, Faith Abney, and Glenn Miller, in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 224-234. (pdf)

10. "Proposal Solicitation and Selection for the 21st Century", Palle Moller, Glenn Miller, Brett Blacker and Meg Urry, in "Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return" ed. P.J. Quinn, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3349, pp. 135-142. (pdf)

11. "RPS2 Proposal Submission Software: Testing and Distribution of Periodically Updated Software", Robert E. Douglas, Jr., submitted to the 191st Meeting of the AAS, Washington, DC, January 1998. (abstract)

12. "The Next Generation User Support Tools", Anuradha Koratkar, and Sandy Grosvenor, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 172, 1999, Editors: D.M. Mehringer, R.L. Plante, and D.A. Roberts, pp. 57-64. (pdf)

13. "TransVERSE an Architecture for Configuring Astronomical Observations", Gary Curtis, Tom Donaldson, Rob Douglas, Andy Gerb, Mark Giuliano, and Natalie Nigro, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 172, 1999, Editors: D.M. Mehringer, R.L. Plante, and D.A. Roberts, pp. 73-76. (pdf)

14. "Recent Improvements to HST Parallel Scheduling", Ronald L. Henry, and Mike Butschky, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 172, 1999, Editors: D.M. Mehringer, R.L. Plante, and D.A. Roberts, pp. 81-84. (pdf)

1997

2. "Proposal Solicitation and Selection for the 21st Century", G. Miller, P. Moller, M. Urry and Brett Blacker, presented at the NGST Annual Technology Challenge Review, 1997, GSFC. (Viewgraphs only: PDF)

3. "Nightly Scheduling of ESO's Very Large Telescope", Alberto Maurizio Chavan (ESO), Gino Giannone (Serco), Dave Silva (ESO), Tony Krueger (STScI), Glenn Miller (STScI), Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 145, 1998, Editors: R. Albrecht, R.N. Hook and H. A. Bushouse, pp. 255-258 (paper).

4. "Achieving Stable Observing Schedules in an Unstable World", Mark Giuliano, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 145, 1998, Editors: R. Albrecht, R.N. Hook and H. A. Bushouse, pp. 271-274 (abstract, paper [pdf]).

5. "Techniques Used to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality for Hubble Space Telescope Operations", Glenn Miller and Tony Krueger, presented at AIAA Workshop on Reducing the Cost of Spacecraft Operations, May 1997, NRL (Viewgraphs only: PDF)

6. "Reasoning About and Scheduling Linked HST Observations with Spike", Laurence Kramer and Mark Giuliano, Proceedings of the NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. (abstract, paper [pdf], [postscript])

7. "Adaptation and Evolution of the Spike Planning and Scheduling System", Glenn Miller, Laurence Kramer, Mark Giuliano, Tony Krueger and Peg Stanley, Proceedings of the NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. (abstract, viewgraphs)

8. "Exploring AI Alternatives in Support of the General Observer Program for NGST", Sandy Grosvenor, Julie Breed, Lisa Dallas, Anuradha Koratkar Proceedings of the NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space.

1995-1996

2. "An Interactive Tool to Aid in Proposal Preparation for the Hubble Space Telescope", A. Bose, G. Miller, A. Gerb, in Telescope Control Systems, ed. P. Wallace, SPIE Proceedings 2479, pp. 434-444. (abstract, PostScript paper).

3. "A Rule-based Shell to Hierarchically Organize HST Observations", A. Bose and A. Gerb, Proceedings of the 1995 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", (postscript paper).

4. "Hubble Space Telescope Planning and Scheduling - Experience, Lessons Learned and Future Directions", G. Miller, in New Observing Modes for the Next Century, (ASP Conference Series, Vol. 87), ed. T. Boroson, J. Davies and I. Robson (San Francisco: ASP), pp. 158-161, 1996. (postscript, Latex)

5. "Portable Scheduling Tools for Astronomical Scheduling", Mark Johnston, in in New Observing Modes for the Next Century, (ASP Conference Series, Vol. 87), ed. T. Boroson, J. Davies and I. Robson (San Francisco: ASP), pp. 62-71, 1996. (PDF, postscript, Latex)

6. "A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories", Glenn Miller, in New Observing Modes for the Next Century, (ASP Conference Series, Vol. 87), ed. T. Boroson, J. Davies and I. Robson (San Francisco: ASP), pp. 81-84, 1996. (postscript, Latex)

7. "A Tcl/Tk-based, intelligent graphical editor for preparing HST programs", D.J. Asson, A. Bose, A. Krueger, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 101, 1996, Editors: G. Jacoby and J. Barnes, pp. 447-450. (Latex, PostScript, and HTML)).

8. "The RPS2 Generic Distributed Computing Framework", R.E. Douglas, Jr., R.E. Jackson, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 101, 1996, Editors: G. Jacoby and J. Barnes, pp. 455-458. (Abstract (Latex, Postscript, HTML), Paper (Latex, PostScript, HTML)).

9. "Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools", G.E. Miller, A. Bose, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 101, 1996, Editors: G. Jacoby and J. Barnes, pp. 467-470. (Abstract (Latex), Paper (Latex, PostScript, HTML)).

1994

2. "A Criterion Autoscheduler for Long Range Planning", J.L. Sponsler, to be published in the Proceedings of the 1994 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence". (html, ps)

3. "Planning and Scheduling for the Hubble Space Telescope", G. Miller, in Robotic Telescopes (ASP Conference Series, Vol. 79), ed. G.W. Henry and J.A. Eaton (San Francisco: ASP), pp. 173-183, 1995. (Postscript, LaTeX)

4. "Planning and Scheduling the Hubble Space Telescope: Practical Application of Advanced Techniques", G. Miller, Third International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation for Space (i-SAIRAS '94), JPL Publication 94-23 (Pasadena: JPL), pp. 339-342. (html, ps)

5. "Electronic Submission of HST Phase I Observing Proposals", H.E. Payne, D.J. Asson, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 77, 1995, Editors: R.A. Shaw, H.E. Payne, and J.J.E. Hayes, pp. 65-67. (HTML, PostScript)

6. "Observing with HST I: RPS2: A New, Friendlier Proposal Submission System", Drew Asson, Tony Roman, Marty Durkin, Anthony Krueger, presented at 185th Meeting of the AAS, 8-12 January 1995, Tucson, AZ. Abstracted in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1994.

"OBSERVING WITH HST I: A NEW PHASE I PROPOSAL PROCESS", Max Mutchler, Ken Anderson, Drew Asson, Ron Downes, Ray Lucas, Piero Madau, Harry Payne, presented at the 184th Meeting of the AAS, 29 May-2 June 1994, Minneaopolis, MN. Abstracted in Bulletin of the AAS.

7. "Observing With HST III: Improvements In Program Development And Processing", Melissa McGrath, Marty Durkin, Andy Gerb, Tony Krueger, Howard Lanning, Olivia Lupie, Lauretta Nagel, Tony Roman, presented at the 184th Meeting of the AAS, 29 May-2 June 1994, Minneapolis, MN.

8. "Observing With HST IV: Improvements In Observation Planning And Scheduling", Glenn Miller, Brett Blacker, Mark Giuliano, Wayne Kinzel, Doug McElroy, Palle Moller, Merle Reinhart, Brian Ross, Molly Shea, Peg Stanley, Anatoly Suchkov, Jean Surdej, Steve Wissler presented at the 184th Meeting of the AAS, 29 May-2 June 1994, Minneapolis, MN.

1993

2. "Analyzing a Heuristic Strategy for Constraint-Satisfaction and Scheduling", S. Minton and M. Johnston, in Intelligent Scheduling, ed. M. Fox and M. Zweben, (San Francisco: Morgan-Kaufmann), ISBN 1-55860-260-7 (1994), pp 257-289.

3. "Minimizing Conflicts: A Heuristic Repair Method for Constraint-Satisfaction and Scheduling Problems", S. Minton, M. Johnson, A. Philips, P. Laird, Artificial Intelligence, 58 (1992) pp. 161-205

4. "A Knowledge Representation for Multiple Criteria Assessment Problems", M. Lucks, I. Gladwell, pp. 100-105

5. "Electronic access to HST information I -- Gopher", Hans-Martin Adorf, Bob Jackson, & Fionn Murtagh. ST-ECF Newsletter No. 20, pp. 24-26

6. "Improving the Observing Efficiency of HST", M.D. Johnston, R. Henry, A. Gerb, M. Giuliano, B. Ross, N. Sanidas, S. Wissler & J. Mainard. AIAA - Computing in Aerospace 9 Conference.

7. "Gopher and World Web - Successors to FTP", Robert Jackson, ADASS'93 Conference Presentation. (HTML)

8. "DRACO: An Expert Assistant for Data Reduction and Analysis, Glenn Miller and Felix Yen, in Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems III (ASP Conference Series, Vol 61), ed. D.R. Crabtree, R.J. Hanisch and J. Barnes (San Francisco: ASP), pp 100-103. (HTML)

1992

2. "Spike: AI Scheduling for Hubble Space Telescope After 18 Months of Orbital Operations", M. Johnston, to appear in the Proceedings of the 1992 AAAI Spring Symposium Series "Practical Approaches to Scheduling and Planning", 25-27 March 1992, Stanford University, CA.

3. "Scheduling with Neural Networks - The Case of Hubble Space Telescope", M. Johnston and H.-M. Adorf, Computers and Operations Research, 19, pp. 209-240.

4. "A System Architecture for a Highly Autonomous Mars Rover", D. Rosenthal and M. Johnston, to appear in Proceedings of the World Space Congress, 28 August-5 September, 1992, Washington, D.C.

5. "Simulation Sutdies of an Autonomous Mars Rover", M. Johnston and D. Rosenthal, to appear in Proceedings of the World Space Congress, 28 August-5 September, 1992, Washington, D.C.

6. "The Data Reduction Expert Assistant", G. Miller, in Astronomy From Large Databases II, ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings No. 43, Ed. A. Heck and F. Murtagh, pp. 99-110.

7. "Starview: The Astronomer's Interface to the Hubble Space Telescope Archive", M. Johnston, Astronomy From Large Databases II, ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings No. 43, Ed. A. Heck and F. Murtagh, pp. 75-83.

8. "Functional Knowledge Representation in AI Applications for Scientific Computing", M. Lucks and I. Gladwell, in Working Notes of the AAAI-92 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Scientific Computation, 23-25 October, 1992, Cambridge, MA, pp. 80-85.

9. "Draco- A Data Reduction Expert Assistant", F. Yen, in working notes of the AAAI-92 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Scientific Computation, 23-25 October, 1992, Cambridge, MA.

10. "Flexible Long- and Short-Range Scheduling for Ground Based Telescopes", M. Johnston presentation at the ESO Conference on Progress in Telescope and Instrumentation Technologies, Garching, 27-30 April, 1992

11. "New Tools for Hubble Space Telescope Users", M. Mutchler, P. Chu and S. Vick, presentation at the 179th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Atlanta, 12-16 Jan 1992, abstract in Bull.A.A.S.

1991

2. "An AI Scheduling Environment for the Hubble Space Telescope", J. Sponsler, M. D. Johnston, G. Miller, A. Krueger, M. Lucks and M. Giuliano, "Computing in Aerospace 8", (21-24 Oct 1991, Baltimore), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, pp. 14-24.

3. "Long Range Science Scheduling for the Hubble Space Telescope", G. Miller and M. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the 1991 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", ed. J.L. Rash, NASA Conference Publication 3110 (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 71-82, reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, 8, pp. 313-323.

4. "Transformation Reborn: A New Generation Expert System for Planning HST Operations", A. Gerb, in "Proceedings of the 1991 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", ed. J.L. Rash, NASA Conference Publication 3110 (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 45-58, reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, 8, pp. 283-295.

5. "The Looker: Using an Expert System to Test an Expert System", A. Gerb, in "Proceedings of the 1991 World Congress on Expert Systems", ed. J. Liebowitz, (New York: Pergamon), pp. 1005-1012.

1990

2. "Spike: Artificial Intelligence Scheduling for Hubble Space Telescope", M. Johnston, G. Miller, J. Sponsler, S. Vick and R. Jackson, in "Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications" (Huntsville, May 22-23, 1990), ed. S.L. O'Dell, NASA Conference Publication 3073 (Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA), pp. 11-18. (pdf)

3. "Artificial Intelligence Scheduling for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope", M.D. Johnston and G.E. Miller, "Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Expert Systems in Government Conference" (Washington, May 7-11, 1990), ed. B. Silverman, V. Huang and S. Post (Los Alamitos, IEEE Computer Society Press), pp. 33-39. (pdf)

4. "SPIKE: AI Scheduling for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope", M.D. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications" (Santa Barbara, March 5-9, 1990), (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press), pp. 184-190. (pdf)

5. "A Discrete Stochastic 'Neural Network' Algorithm for Constraint Satisfaction Problems", H.-M. Adorf and M.D. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 90)", (San Diego, June 17-21 1990), (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE), Vol. III, pp. 917-924. (pdf)

6. "Tools and Techniques for the Development of Common Lisp Applications Across Heterogeneous Machines", S. Vick and J. Sponsler, "Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Systems Integration" (Morristown, April 23-26, 1990), ed. P.A. Ng, C.V. Ramamoorthy, L.C. Seifert and R.T. Yeh, pp. 76-85. (pdf)

7. "An Approach to Rescheduling Activities Based On Determination of Priority and Disruptivity", Jeffrey L. Sponsler, and Mark D. Johnston, in "Proceedings of 1990 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence" (Greenbelt, Maryland, May 1-2, 1990), ed. J. L. Rash, NASA Conference Publication 3068 (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 63-74, reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, 7, pp. 243-253.

8. "Orbital Sites Tradeoff Study", J.D. Neill, P. Bely, G.E. Miller and A. Spigler, in "Proceedings of the Conference on the Next Generation Space Telescope", (Baltimore, September 13-15, 1989), ed. P. Bely, C. Burrows and G. Illingworth (Baltimore: Space Telescope Science Institute), pp. 333-340.

9. "Spike Report", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society.

10. "A Study of Scheduling Strategies for Space and Ground Based Observatories", G.E. Miller and M.D. Johnston, paper presented at 175th American Astronomical Society Meeting (Washington, D.C., January 1990), abstract published in Bulletin of the A.A.S., 21, 1148. (pdf)

1989

2. "Knowledge Based Telescope Scheduling", M.D. Johnston, in "Knowledge Based Systems in Astronomy (Lecture Notes in Physics #329)", ed. F. Murtagh and A. Heck, (Berlin: Springer Verlag) pp. 33-49 (1989). (pdf)

3. "Learning in Stochastic Neural Networks for Constraint Satisfaction Problems", M.D. Johnston and H.-M. Adorf, in "Proceedings of the NASA Conference on Space Telerobotics" (Pasadena, Jan 31 - February 2, 1989), ed. G. Rodriguez and H. Seraji, JPL Publication 89-7 (Pasadena: JPL), Vol. II, pp. 367-376. (pdf)

4. "Genetic Algorithms Applied to the Scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope", J. Sponsler, in "Proceedings of the 1989 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence" (Greenbelt, May 16-17, 1989), ed. J. Rash, NASA Conference Publication 3033, (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 391-402, reprinted in Telematics and Informatics, 6, pp. 181-190 (1989).

5. "Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Astronomical Observation Scheduling", M. Johnston and G. Miller, in "Data Analysis in Astronomy III", ed. V. DiGesu, L. Scarsi, P. Crane, J. Friedman, S. Levialdi, and M. Maccarone (New York: Plenum Press), pp. 205-214. (Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, Erice, June 20-27, 1988) (1989) STScI Reprint #304. (pdf)

6. "Scheduling Automated Telescopes", G.E. Miller and M.D. Johnston, paper presented at 173rd American Astronomical Society Meeting (Boston, January 1989), abstract published in Bull. A.A.S. 20, 951 (1989).

7. "Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Space Telescope Scheduling", M. Johnston presentation at IJCAI CSP workshop, 20 August 1989.

8. "Scheduling Automated Telescopes", G. Miller presentation at the Boston AAS meeting. (pdf)

1988

2. "The Proposal Entry Processor: Telescience Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Operations", R. Jackson, M. Johnston, G. Miller, K. Lindenmayer, P. Monger, S. Vick, R. Lerner and J. Richon in "Proceedings of the 1988 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", ed. J. Rash and P. Hughes, NASA Conference Publication 3009, (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 107-124 (1988), STScI Reprint #303. (pdf)

3. "Lisp Object State Saver (LOSS) - A Facility Used to Save Partial Schedules of the Hubble Space Telescope", J.L. Sponsler in "Proceedings of the 1988 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", ed. J. Rash and P. Hughes, NASA Conference Publication 3009, (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 425-434 (1988), STScI Reprint #303. (pdf)

4. "Verification and Validation of Rulebased Systems for Hubble Space Telescope Ground Support", S. Vick and K. Lindenmayer, in "Proceedings of the 1988 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence", ed. J. Rash and P. Hughes, NASA Conference Publication 3009, (Greenbelt: NASA), pp. 435-448 (1988), STScI Reprint #303. (pdf)

5. "Automated Observation Scheduling for the VLT", M. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the ESO Conference on Very Large Telescopes and Their Instrumentation" (Garching, March 1988), ed. M.-H. Ulrich (Garching: ESO), pp, 1273-1282 (1988), STScI Reprint #307. (pdf)

6. "VLT Operations - The Astronomer's Environment", R. Fosbury, H.-M. Adorf, and M. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the ESO Conference on Very Large Telescopes and Their Instrumentation", ed. M.-H. Ulrich (Garching: ESO) (1988).

7. "Automated Telescope Scheduling", M. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the Symposium on Coordination of Observational Projects in Astronomy" (Strasbourg, November 1987), ed. C. Jaschek and C. Sterken (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 219-226 (1988), STScI Reprint #306. (pdf)

8. "Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Spacecraft Scheduling", M.D. Johnston, in "Proceedings of the ESA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications for Space Projects", ed. A. Scheffer, (Noordwijk: ESTEC) p 5, (1988). (pdf)

9. "Data Traceability in the Construction of Astronomical Archives", G. Miller, P. Monger and M. Johnston, in "Astronomy From Large Databases", ed. F. Murtagh and A. Heck, (Garching FRG: European Southern Observatory) pp. 423-428 (1988).

10. "Towards Heterogeneous Distributed Very Large Databases", H.-M. Adorf, R. Albrecht, M.D. Johnston and R. Rampazzo, in "Astronomy From Large Databases", ed. F. Murtagh and A. Heck, (Garching FRG: European Southern Observatory) pp. 137-142 (1988).

11. "Automated Scheduling with Neural Networks", M. Johnston, ST-ECF Data Analysis Workshop, 27 April, 1988

1987

2. "An Expert Assistant for Astronomical Data Analysis", M. Johnston, Proceedings of the 1987 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

3. "Maintaining an Expert System for the Hubble Space Telescope Ground Support", K. Lindenmayer, S. Vick and D. Rosenthal, Proceedings of the 1987 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

4. "Expert Systems Built by the 'Expert': An Evaluation of OPS5", R. Jackson, Proceedings of the 1987 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

5. "A Natural Language Query System for Hubble Space Telescope Proposal Selection", T. Hornick, W. Cohen, and G. Miller, Proceedings of the 1987 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

1986

2. "Transformation of Scientific Objectives into Spacecraft Activities", D. Rosenthal, Expert Systems in Government Symposium, ed. K. Karna, K. Parsaye, and B. Silverman, (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society) pp. 430-435.