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The Messenger 119
March 2005


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TELESCOPE TIME ALLOCATION TOOL

JOÃO ALVES

EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

Abstract: Tatoo is ESO’s new time allocation tool. This software scheduler is a combination of a userfriendly 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.
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