Steps toward Quantifying Advancement in Space Exploration

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of preliminary research performed by the authors on project with objective of developing a group of simplistic models and metrics for measuring performance of success of projects of NASA. A starting point of this is to review related work by others for other applications such as Moore's Law for different types of advances in technology. The cover article (Denning & Lewis, 2017) of this year's issue of Communications of ACM indicates that this is research of continuing interest.