Table 5.
Method characterisation by the range the input resources required
| Time | Money | Knowledge | Data | |
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| Problem Structuring | ||||
| 1. Drama theory & confrontation analysis |  |
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| 2. Robustness analysis |  |
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| 3. Soft systems methodology |  |
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| 4. Strategic choice approach | |
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| 5. Strategic Options Development and Analysis | |
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| Conceptual Modelling | ||||
| 6. Activity diagrams |  |
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| 7. Communication diagrams | |
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| 8. Data flow diagrams | |
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| 9. Influence diagrams | |
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| 10. Information diagrams | |
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| 11. Issue maps | |
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| 12. State transition diagrams | |
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| 13. Swim lane activity diagrams | |
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| Mathematical Modelling | ||||
| 14. Decision trees | |
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| 15. Markov modelling | |
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| 16. Multivariate analysis |  |
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| 17. Optimisation methods | |
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| 18. Petri nets | |
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| 19. Queuing theory | |
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| 20. Survival analysis | |
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| Simulation | ||||
| 21. Agent based simulation | |
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| 22. Discrete event simulation | |
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| 23. Gaming simulation | |
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| 24. Hybrid simulation |  |
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| 25. Inverse simulation | |
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| 26. Monte Carlo simulation | |
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| 27. Real-time simulation | |
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| 28. System dynamics |  |
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