It provides a practical method for the ship designer to calculate an Overall Measure of Effectiveness (OMOE) which represents customer requirements and relates ship measures of performance (MOPs) to mission effectiveness. This is an essential prerequisite to a disciplined search of design parameters.
It includes an efficient method to search design space for non-dominated concepts.
It provides a consistent format for presenting and trading off a manageable set of dissimilar objective attributes (effectiveness, cost, and risk). Essential future work includes:
Integrate with a design database and product model.
Extend to later stages of design using a dynamic landscape PGA.
Validate the AHP/MAVT approach to define and calculate an OMOE.
Integrate with a process/shipbuilding model.
Extend to include risk as a third objective attribute.