TY - JOUR
T1 - A decision support system for the development of voyage and maintenance plans for ships
AU - Diakaki, Christina
AU - Panagiotidou, Natalia
AU - Pouliezos, Anastasios
AU - Kontes, Georgios D.
AU - Stavrakakis, George S.
AU - Belibassakis, Kostas
AU - Gerostathis, Theodoros P.
AU - Livanos, George
AU - Pagonis, Dimitrios-Nikolaos
AU - Theotokatos, Gerasimos
N1 - Accepted for publication: 21/02/2014
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - The waterborne sector faces nowadays significant challenges due to several environmental, financial and other concerns. Such challenges may be addressed, among others, by optimising voyage plans, and diagnosing as early as possible engine failures that may lead to performance degradation. These two issues are addressed by the Decision Support System (DSS) presented herein, which focuses on the operation of merchant ships. For the development of voyage plans, a multicriteria decision problem is developed and handled with the PROMETHE method, while a multivariable control chart is used for the fault diagnosis problem. A MATLAB-based software implementation of the DSS has been developed adopting a modular architecture, while, in order to provide a generic software solution, the required input data are retrieved from dedicated web-services, following specific communication and data exchange protocols.
AB - The waterborne sector faces nowadays significant challenges due to several environmental, financial and other concerns. Such challenges may be addressed, among others, by optimising voyage plans, and diagnosing as early as possible engine failures that may lead to performance degradation. These two issues are addressed by the Decision Support System (DSS) presented herein, which focuses on the operation of merchant ships. For the development of voyage plans, a multicriteria decision problem is developed and handled with the PROMETHE method, while a multivariable control chart is used for the fault diagnosis problem. A MATLAB-based software implementation of the DSS has been developed adopting a modular architecture, while, in order to provide a generic software solution, the required input data are retrieved from dedicated web-services, following specific communication and data exchange protocols.
KW - voyage plan
KW - marine engine fault diagnosis
KW - condition based maintenance
KW - decision support systems
KW - multicriteria decision analysis
UR - http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijdss
U2 - 10.1504/IJDSS.2015.067274
DO - 10.1504/IJDSS.2015.067274
M3 - Article
SN - 2050-6988
VL - 1
SP - 42
EP - 71
JO - International Journal of Decision Support Systems
JF - International Journal of Decision Support Systems
IS - 1
ER -