To address the second challenge (a methodology for capturing the knowledge), we initially considered using the DSM itself as a knowledge capture too. However, while DSM is a compact presentation of the dependencies between tasks in a process, and affords analysis and manipulation opportunities once the knowledge is captured, “filling in” DSMs (for instance, in Excel spreadsheets and similar tools) was not found to be an intuitive process for most ship design practitioners. Some studies have been conducted in the relative merits of users attempting to understand connectivity models like DSMs in matrices versus node-link representations (see [2] and its references), and these studies indicate some preferences for each representation in certain tasks. However, the process of knowledge capture, from multiple real-world experts, in workshop settings, using sophisticated, interactive software tools for matrix and network creation, manipulation, and visualization, is a relatively unexamined topic.