The purpose of this study was to deploy a Delphi expert elicitation methodology better understand the technical and policy challenges facing development sustainable lunar outpost in 2040, including types scale In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) deployment. We used three-round survey with an open first round specific questions later rounds using four-point Likert two ranking exercises assess en...

In the last 30 years, the application of the Delphi technique has been increasing. With the recent availability and established popularity of Internet-based research tools, the Internet has been identified as a means for mitigating Delphi limitations, maximizing its advantages, and expanding the breadth of its application. The discourse on the application of “e-Delphi” has been speculative in n...

BACKGROUND Accurate modeling of electrostatic potential and corresponding energies becomes increasingly important for understanding properties of biological macromolecules and their complexes. However, this is not an easy task due to the irregular shape of biological entities and the presence of water and mobile ions. RESULTS Here we report a comprehensive suite for the well-known Poisson-Bol...

In view of China's "carbon peak, carbon neutral" strategy, especially the important point reaching peak by 2035 and achieving socialist modernisation, it is to select a number priority end-use energy consumption technology topics promote company's technological innovation. Based on results two rounds Delphi survey, eight technologies with "dual carbon" focus should be prioritised, namely: virtu...

This paper focuses on the multiperspective requirements that influence mobile collaborative maintenance adoption and implementation in engineering asset management organizations. Mobile technologies have developed rapidly and they are viewed as business enablers, and have the potential to support asset maintenance practice. Nowadays, several specialized systems have been invested in by engineer...

As part of a wider study of the relevance of the principles and practices of the Slow Movement to the information disciplines and professions, a Delphi study was carried out with 17 researchers in information behaviour and practices. A novel variant of the Delphi technique, termed the Slow Delphi, was devised for this study. This is aimed at eliciting qualitative understanding of complex concep...

Traditional groups meetings are an inefficient and ineffective method for making forecasts and decisions. We compare two structured alternatives to traditional meetings: the Delphi technique and prediction markets. Delphi is relatively simple and cheap to implement and has been adopted for diverse applications in business and government since its origins in the 1950s. It can be used for nearly ...

The Delphi Method of group communication was used with experienced distance education stakeholders in the United States from the areas of research, policy, and practice to identify priorities in K–12 distance education over the next five years. Data from the three rounds of this study were organized and compared using descriptive statistics. The results of the analyses by statement and by subsc...

Information Technology (IT) is becoming a utility and, in this context, IT services in its mode called "cloud computing" are playing a growing role. This kind of outsourcing has proved advantageous in many ways, despite the existence of both barriers that oppose contracting this sort of services, and inherent risks. In order to explore in greater depth the issues related to the advantages, barr...