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Selected:Delphi MethodARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Competency QuestionsNeOn Methodology
| Criterion |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering |