Development of Decision Making Platform in Early Stage of R&D Project: Case Study on Maritime Industry

Abstract

In this paper, decision making platform in early stage of R&D process is proposed and the prototype is developed. The proposed platform helps decision making process by simulation whose modeling is built by system approach. According to the platform, decision makers frame a problem, build the model, and run the simulation for all of their options. They are able to observe the tradespace based on the simulation result and obtain insight for the decision making. We applied the prototype of the proposed platform to the alternative fuels problem for shipping. It demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed platform, and we are able to discuss the advantage of the platform.