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This design should be able to ensure that resources are efficiently
allocated in order to ensure that as much valid scientific data as
possible gets sent back to the scientists at NASA.  In order to
achieve this goal, we took into consider the various complications
that could hinder the process.  These complications include mission
amendments, the failure of sensors and rovers, and poor
communications.  The mission distribution algorithm is made flexible
by the variable amount of rovers that can get sent out to perform a
mission.  This flexibility is an asset because it allows the system to
efficiently allocate resources under a wide range of work loads.
Also, the priority values that can be assigned to missions make the
overall system fairly customizable.  With simple changes in the
procedure for value assignment, the overall system can be customized
to suit a variety of needs.  Some of the design choices we have made
depend on assumptions that would be valid in the real world, whereas
other assumptions might only be valid given this design projectÕs
model of the world.  However, we believe that we have kept these
assumptions to a reasonable level and that within the world of this
design project the design would soundly deal with the issues with
which it is presented.