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| Criterion |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | The NeOn Methodology structures ontology work as a controlled process with reuse, scenarios, and reviews. It is useful when ontologies should not emerge ad hoc but modularly and reusably. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 1-3 h | 2-4 h | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 1-8 | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering |