The Eighth International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS)

This was the eighth in a regular series that started in 1997. There have been eight workshops in the series. At this year's workshop held March 25-26, 2013, at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, there were 26 technical papers and two invited talks on a wide range of topic areas relating to planning and scheduling, including: techniques and algorithms, applications to space or aerospace, planning, scheduling, plan execution, knowledge acquisition for planning and scheduling systems, embedded planning and execution systems, and other general topic areas. Applications included International Space Station payloads, space mission operations, human space flight, space observatories, planning for communications, airborne operations, and Earth observation scheduling. International researchers from space agencies, academia, and industry from Europe, America, Canada, and South America participated.