ABSTRACT
In the introduction to the IMDC 2015 Design Methodology State of the Art report (Andrews & Erikstad, 2015) it was remarked that that Design Methodology State of the Art report was the first DM Report since IMDC 2009. There had also been a Design for X Report edited by A. Papanikalaou and covering Safety, Performance, Artic Operations and Producability. There had also been a Design for X in 2012, which largely focused on Design for Layout and recent cooperative work by the University of Michigan, Technical University Delft and University College London. It also included an introduction to Design for X (by A. Papanikalaou) and Design for Production (particularly Operations Research in Ship Production Logistics) by F. Dong & D. Singer. There were two other SoA Reports in 2012 covering D for Safety (by D. Vassalos) and LNG Carriers (by A. Murakami & Y. Takaoko).
