The use of network theory to model disparate ship design information

Analyzing the dynamic behavior of marine design tools using network theory

“…The current paper diverges from Gillespie's in that he was focusing on product structure (creating designs) rather than tool structure (creating information). Network research into the development and understanding of physical product structures has continued with other researchers (Rigterink et al, 2013).…”

Investigating physical solutions in the architectural design of distributed ship service systems

“…As such, resulting routings only represent feasible physical solutions, which in turn must be analyzed to determine characteristics using distributed system analyses methods (e.g. [19,18,15]).…”

“…The physical solution is the physical definition of the distributed system, which implements the logical architecture within the physical architecture. While the physical solution does not consider the op-erational architecture, it still has a critical role in vessel performance [19]. Thus, it is important to understand how decisions defining the physical and logical architectures will impact on the physical solution during early-stage design activities.…”

“…Network analysis studies the evolving interactions between parts of the design process and product [53]. This allows designers to represent and analyze disparate information at multiple scales throughout the design process [19]. For example, studying the interdependent coupling between arrangement constraints and physical architectures can identify optimization biases and predict vessel arrangements [50,51].…”

“…Network analysis can also enable designers to identify design drivers built into the structure of naval architecture methods and tools [53,54,55]. Applied to studying physical system solutions, network-based methods provide insight into distributed systems functionality and design [19,18,14,15].…”