NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19880014804: Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications, part 2

This document contains the Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications (CAISA), sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). There is widespread interest throughout the aerospace community in utilizing scientific and technical developments from the field of Artificial Intelligence (Al) to enhance our space program. For NASA, future activities in space will rely on the effective utilization of key Al components. The intent of this conference is to provide an opportunity for those groups and individuals who employ Al methods in space applications to identify common goals, to compare the effectiveness of the various approaches being investigated, and to discuss issues of general interest in the Al community. The Third CAISA brings together a diversity of scientific and engineering work and is intended to promote thoughtful discussion concerning the possibilities created by this work.

Al contains many components, some of which can be selectively applied to develop more competent, less demanding flight/ground systems. This is the message of the invited speakers at our keynote session. As the participants in this conference have recognized, there is no more fascinating - nor more potent - combination of technologies than is found in the use of Artificial Intelligence to support our exploration of space. The potential benefits to our society and all mankind are literally limitless. The presentations in our technical sessions discuss various aspects of this technology. The papers presented were selected through a careful review of the submitted abstracts by at least five members of the Technical Committee. The selected presentations, represented by the papers or abstracts herein, were organized into twenty-one technical sessions. Every effort was made to minimize the conflicts arising from parallel sessions. The broad range of topics presented is indicative of the interest in NASA's goals commonly found in the Al community.

This conference would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of many people. First, I would like to thank the authors whose research and development efforts are presented here. Second, I thank the members of all the committees, the advisors, and the volunteers who planned and implemented the numerous activities which enable a conference such as this one. I thank the exhibitors for their efforts to develop and demonstrate tools for implementing many of the ideas discussed during these two days. And, finally, I thank the invited speakers and the many other people from NASA and UAH whose interest in Artificial Intelligence and space applications makes this conference both possible and meaningful.

This document contains those Proceedings which were not incorporated in Part I.

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