ScheduPlex™ is Frontier Technology’s patent-pending automated scheduling technology. It has the following characteristics:

• Artificially intelligent: Uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques.
  
• Real-time: Solves large, complex scheduling problems in seconds.
  
• Constrained: Produces solutions that meet resource, temporal, spatial and operational constraints.
  
• Optimal: Produces mathematically optimal scheduling solutions relative to user-selected objective function and priorities.
  
• Adaptive: AI shell customizes solution algorithms to the specific nature of each scheduling problem without human intervention. It also modifies itself over time as it learns how best to find an optimal solution (in terms of computational time) to various types of scheduling problems.
  
• Schedu(ling): Specifically developed and tested for large-scale, difficult (technically, “NP-hard”) scheduling problems.
  
• Plex: Solution algorithms integrated in software, controlled by an AI shell, permitting, but not requiring human intervention.

ScheduPlex™ is the technology underlying FTI’s Space Operations Scheduling and Management (SOPSMAN®) System software product.