I hope to complete this thesis in a little over a year. Here is my target schedule:
This thesis and timeline face several risks. First, real applications
inevitably introduce thorny issues and software complexity.
Fortunately, the simulation software for all of the major domains but
one (NASA) is already implemented, and the NASA implementation is to
be done by a colleague at JPL. Second, some of the algorithms I have
proposed to investigate are quite CPU-intensive. Thoroughly
evaluating the cross-product of algorithms domains is out of
the question; I will have to judiciously choose the subset of
experiments that answers the most interesting questions.