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Table 2 Taxonomy from [11], Futures Research Methodology 3.0

From: A note on the classification of future-related methods

Method

Quantitat.

Qualitat.

Normat.

Explorat.

Agent Modeling

 

X

 

X

Causal Layered Analysis

 

X

 

X

Chaos and Non-Linear Systems

X

  

X

Cross-Impact Analysis

X

  

X

Decision Modeling

X

  

X

Delphi Techniques

 

X

X

X

Econometrics and Statistical Modeling

X

  

X

Environmental Scanning

 

X

 

X

Field Anomaly Relaxation

 

X

 

X

Futures Polygon

X

X

X

X

Futures Wheel

 

X

X

X

Genius Forecasting, Vision, and Intuition

 

X

X

X

Interactive Scenarios

 

X

X

X

Morphological Analysis

 

X

X

 

Multiple Perspective

 

X

X

X

Participatory Methods

 

X

X

 

Prediction Markets

X

 

X

 

Relevance Trees

 

X

X

 

Robust Decisionmaking

X

  

X

Scenarios

X

X

X

X

Science and Technology Roadmapping

X

X

X

X

Simulation-Gaming

 

X

 

X

State of the Future Index

X

X

X

X

Structural Analysis

X

X

 

X

Substitution Analysis

    

Systems Modeling

X

  

X

Technological Sequence Analysis

 

X

X

 

Text Mining

 

X

X

X

Trend Impact Analysis

X

  

X

Visioning

 

X

X

 

Wild Cards

X

X

 

X