SALSART - a Web based cooperative environment for offline real-time schedule design

We present SALSART, a Web-based cooperative environment for the design of real-time schedules. It comprises a set of standalone tools interacting via an Internet-based central supervisor. It envisions a set of experts working as a geographically separated team on application specification, scheduling, editing, simulation and analysis of real-time schedules. Acknowledging the complexity of the scheduling problem and engineering constraints will prevent "one shot" solutions satisfying all demands, the tool suite supports the editing, modification, and cooperative rescheduling and redesign of solutions. These steps can be performed in isolation, or in an interactive way, providing for Web-based communication and graphical redesign within the team. The SALSART interactive tools are implemented in JAVA for platform independence and use XML for interfacing. Thus, it can be applied on a variety of systems and provides for configurable application demands.