Abstract
The Science User Resource Expert (SURE), which is currently being developed by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is one of three components composing the Science User Resource Planning and Scheduling System (SURPASS). SURPASS is a software tool enabling distributed planning and scheduling and is based on resource allocation and optimization. SURPASS was written in Ada and uses an X-based DECwindows user interface, the INGRES database management system, and the CLIPS/Ada expert system production shell. SURPASS is designed to support a wide range of science applications and can be easily tailored via database modifications, DECwindows updates, and rule specifications for the SURE system. SURE will be used by the SURPASS to build a daily science plan and activity schedule for the University of Colorado's SOLar-STellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE), a solar observing instrument that will fly on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS). The SURE will also be used in a prototyping effort with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to demonstrate distributed planning and scheduling for a similar instrument on the Earth Observing System (EOS) platform. This paper describes the goals of the SURE system, the software architecture, issues in development, knowledge acquisition, and the UARS SOLSTICE application.
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