Research

CPM forward/backward pass with float calculation to identify the critical path

Identify the critical chain — longest path considering resource contention

Flyvbjerg critical case methodology: select most-likely and least-likely cases to maximize inferential power.

Strategy: Classic triangular debate — Critic attacks, Defender responds, Judge adjudicates. Based on Irving AI Safety via Debate with Toulmin argumentation structure.

Attack an advocate's case with multiple arguments rated by severity.

Extract evaluation criteria from research goals and candidate alternatives.

Challenge the evaluation criteria themselves using Assumption-based Planning, Critical Systems Heuristics, and Boundary Critique to ensure the framework is sound.

Compute coverage completeness, redundancy, and gap severity scores from a coverage map.

Map evaluation coverage, identify untested capability dimensions — 20 benchmarks, 30 papers, 50 web searches

Detect uncovered regions in the solution space, producing a prioritized gap list.

Systematic coverage evaluation pipeline — benchmark inventory, method-problem crossing, and intersection evaluation to map explored vs unexplored solution space.

Strategy: Legal adversarial structure — prosecution presents case, defense responds, evidence is cross-examined, judge delivers verdict. Emphasizes evidence quality and procedural rigor.

Construct precise, internally consistent counterfactual scenarios where specified factors are altered, then reason about the resulting conclusion.

Campaign: Counterfactual reasoning to identify load-bearing factors. Core question: If key factors were different, would the conclusion still hold? Methods: Pearl SCM Three-Step, Lewis Possible Worlds, Tetlock & Belkin, PNS/PS.

Generate counterexamples (monsters), attempt monster-barring, incorporate surviving counterexamples as lemma refinements (Lakatos method).

Systematically generate counterexamples (monsters) to a given claim using diverse heuristic strategies.

Construct the strongest possible counter-argument to the convergence decision using Dialectical Inquiry and Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis methods.

Generate dialectical opposites for governing variables — coherent alternative worldviews where the opposite is true.

Extract core conflict in Evaporating Cloud format (A-B-C-D-D')

Iterative convergence to a single answer through Classic Delphi, Modified Delphi, or Nominal Group Technique rounds.

Evaluate whether the ranking has stabilized by analyzing rating history and computing stability metrics.

Compare results across multiple model variants — quantitative agreement metrics and qualitative conclusion stability.

Systematically vary parameters along defined axes, recording performance at each point to identify degradation thresholds.

Query the 39x39 TRIZ contradiction matrix to find recommended inventive principles for a given technical contradiction.