Telescope Time Allocation Tool

Author(s)

J. Alves

Abstract

TaToo is ESO's new Time Allocation Tool. This software scheduler is a

combination of a user-friendly graphical user interface and an

intelligent constraint-programming engine fine-tuned to ESO's scheduling

problem. TaToo is able to produce a high quality and reliable schedule

taking into consideration all constraints of the recommended programs

for all telescopes in about 15 minutes. This performance allows

schedulers at ESO-VISAS to simulate and evaluate different scenarios,

optimize the scheduling of engineering activities at the observatories,

and in the end construct the most science efficient schedule possible.

Organisation(s)

External organisation(s)

European Southern Observatory (Germany)

Journal

The Messenger

Volume

119

Pages

20-24

ISSN

0722-6691

Publication date

03-2005

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103004 Astrophysics

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