On-The-Fly Design Rationale to Support Real-Time Collaborative Naval Ship Layout Design

This paper presents a new design rationale methodology to support collaborative design decision-making during early stage complex ship design. The nature of collaborative design is described and the need and key challenges of design rationale capturing and reuse are identified.<br/>Subsequently, the methodology is developed to overcome these key...

Assessing complex failure scenarios of on-board distributed systems using a Markov chain

Vulnerability reduction is an important topic during the design of naval ships because they are designed to operate in hostile environments and because their on-board distributed systems are becoming increasingly complex. The vulnerability needs to be addressed in the early design stages already, in order to prevent expensive or time...

Layout Analysis of Polar Expedition Cruise Ship in Early Stage Design: By accounting for subjective preference and fuzzy logic theory

The design of polar expedition cruise ship is not a trivial task to the naval architect due to the complex nature of the ship itself. Concept exploration are hereby required to improve the understanding of the design problem and identify its challenge as well as possible solutions. However, it is always difficult to generate the technically...