Coordination Manager - Antidote to the Stovepipe Antipattern
Mark R. Abramson, Stephan E. Kolitz, Alexander Kahn · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2010 · 2010
Many large data collection enterprises, (e.g., the collection of Earth observation data) are organized as single-mission systems of separately managed collection systems, i.e., stovepipes. This organizational approach inhibits communication and coordination among collection systems. The approach is so pervasive that essentially it is a pattern of behavior that new collection systems will be organized as a stovepipe. This pattern limits the collection potential of the overall enterprise – and so we view this pattern as a negative way of doing things or an anti-pattern. This paper discusses our solution to this anti-pattern: the coordination manager, which provides a framework for optimization-based rolling horizon dynamic planning and scheduling, an approach that addresses the issue of coordination of stovepipe mission planning systems. It is the first step toward an objective multiple mission system designed from the beginning to participate with other single-mission systems.