Guidelines

• The telescope is treated as a valuable resource. We should avoid scheduling observations which will be discarded because they do not meet their requirements.

• To make best use of ALMA, a dynamic scheduling program should be able to adjust the observing parameters according to the weather, but must do so in a way that leaves the human observers feeling in control of the observations.
• A dynamic scheduling program should be developed in conjunction with the rest of the system in order to have suitable interfaces to the observing proposals, observing procedures, data pipeline and data archiving.