The increasing complexity of engineering systems has sparked rising interest in
multidisciplinary optimization (MDO). This paper surveys recent publications in the field of …

Thank you for taking the time to read this textbook on Additive Manufacturing (AM). We hope
you benefit from the time and effort it has taken putting it together and that you think it was a …

Electrical propulsion is not a novel concept in marine systems. However, the availability of
power electronic converters has proved to be the Key Enabling Technology for electrification …

One of the truisms of ship design is that the decisions of greatest impact are made in the
early stages of design when the least information and the greatest uncertainty are present. In …

Variability is unavoidable in the realization of products. While design must specify ideal
geometry, it shall also describe limits of variability (tolerances) that must be met in order to …

Autonomous vessels have become a topic of high interest for the maritime transport industry.
Recent progress in the development of technologies enabling autonomous systems has …

In this chapter we present the Adaptive Linear Programming algorithm for solving a wide
variety of practical multiobjective engineering design problems. This paper is an extension …

Designers are usually facing a problem of finding information from a huge amount of
unstructured textual documents in order to prepare for a decision to be made. The major …

Product customization has been recognized as an effective means to implement mass
customization. This paper focuses on the customizability issue of design, that is, to evaluate …

Abstract The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Commission on Industrial
Productivity, in their report Made in America, found that six recurring weaknesses were …