A free market in telescope time?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5493, Issue , 2004, Pages 90-96

  Etherton, J ^a,b   Steele, I A ^a   Mottram, C J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Astrophysics Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Free market; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FREE MARKET; HUMAN CONSTRAINTS; PROCESS-DEPENDENT QUIRKS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; TESTING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444251756     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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