Collaborative Architecting for a Cross-Industry Simulation Platform: Focusing on Decarbonization of Shipping
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Maritime and Ocean Digital Engineering (MODE) Laboratory, an industry-academia collaboration, aims to create a shared simulation platform for the digital and green transformation of the maritime industry. This platform is designed to represent ship systems and their surrounding environments in a digital space, for use by various stakeholders throughout phases of the ship lifecycle. A challenge lies in the need for collaborative development of the platform, considering the diverse intentions of more than 15 companies involved. This study introduces a system architecting method for a simulation platform focusing on the decarbonization of shipping, to be developed with cross-industry partners. Given continuous discussions about appropriate regulation frameworks and new technologies such as wind propulsion in recent years, a simulation platform should respond adaptively to these changing situations. In order to select the architecture of the platform, the relationships amongst the platform’s use cases, the models and components necessary for the simulator, as well as the connections between use cases and models, are systematically organized from multiple viewpoints. This approach allows for a clear assessment of the desirability and feasibility of various use cases and models, enabling quantitative discussions of their priorities and selection.
Source: Procedia Computer Science
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415224005