Artificial Intelligence and Marine Design  Saul Amarel, Louis
Steinberg   In the last few years, interest has grown in
exploring AI approaches to design problems, both because of the
enormous potential impact on productivity of improved design
tools and because of the interesting basic AI issues that these
problems raise. In particular, a number of ship designers and AI
researchers recently became interested in applying AI to the
hydrodynamic design of ship hulls. A typical problem here is to
design the shape of a ship's hull in response to desired
hydrodynamic properties such as drag and stability, taking into
consideration a variety of design constraints, such as total
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