Authors: Vázquez Álvarez, Antonio José, Erwin, Richard Scott
​​​Illustrates the relationship between satellite range scheduling and general machine scheduling
Provides the first game-theoretic approach to satellite range scheduling
Approaches the satellite range scheduling problem from a formal perspective​

From the Back Cover

The satellite range scheduling (SRS) problem, an important operations research problem in the aerospace industry consisting of allocating tasks among satellites and Earth-bound objects, is examined in this book. SRS principles and solutions are applicable to many areas, including:

Satellite communications, where tasks are communication intervals between sets of satellites and ground stations
Earth observation, where tasks are observations of spots on the Earth by satellites
Sensor scheduling, where tasks are observations of satellites by sensors on the Earth.

This self-contained monograph begins with a structured compendium of the problem and moves on to explain the optimal approach to the solution, which includes aspects from graph theory, set theory, game theory and belief networks. This book is accessible to students, professionals and researchers in a variety of fields, including: operations research, optimization, scheduling theory, dynamic programming and game theory. Taking account of the distributed, stochastic and dynamic variants of the problem, this book presents the optimal solution to the fixed interval SRS problem and how to migrate results into more complex cases. Reference algorithms and traditional algorithms for solving the scheduling problems are provided and compared with examples and simulations in practical scenarios.

Number of Illustrations and Tables
49 illus., 20 in colour
Topics
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Mathematical Applications in Computer Science
Algorithms
Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
Mathematical Applications in Computer Science

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