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Strategy: Weight by stakeholder perspective — the same gap carries different weight under different perspectives; take the consensus ranking at the end

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Stakeholder-Weighted Ranking

Rank with weights by stakeholder perspective: identify all relevant parties (researchers, engineers, policymakers, end users, etc.), construct an independent weight vector for each class of party, rank separately, and then take the consensus.

When to Use

  • The research involves multiple stakeholders (e.g., medical AI: clinicians + patients + regulators)
  • Different parties have fundamentally divergent definitions of "importance"
  • A consensus must be built across parties, or the ranking differences across perspectives must be shown
  • A funding agency or collaborator needs to see priorities from their own perspective

Thinking Framework

Core principle: there is no objective "most important gap", only "most important to whom".

The process has three layers:

Layer 1: Stakeholder identification List all groups that would be affected by the research results. Each class of party has a different value function — engineers value feasibility, policymakers value impact, academic researchers value novelty.

Layer 2: Within-perspective ranking For each class of party, use the same four-dimensional scoring as multi-criteria-ranking, but with a different weight vector. For example:

  • Academic researchers: novelty 0.40, importance 0.30, impact 0.20, feasibility 0.10
  • Engineers: feasibility 0.40, impact 0.30, importance 0.20, novelty 0.10
  • Policymakers: impact 0.45, importance 0.35, feasibility 0.15, novelty 0.05

Layer 3: Consensus merging Borda count or weighted-average the per-perspective rankings, identifying the "cross-perspective robust top gaps" (deemed important by all parties) and the "perspective-divergent gaps" (highly valued by some parties, ignored by others).

Key insight: perspective divergence is itself information — a gap with large divergence may need interest-alignment first, rather than a direct attack.

Budget Gate

TierGap countParty countConsensus methodFinal output
S5–102–3 classesSimple averagePer-perspective rankings + consensus top-3
M11–203–5 classesBorda countPer-perspective rankings + consensus top-5 + divergence analysis
L20+5+ classesWeighted Borda + sensitivityFull perspective matrix + consensus ranking + divergence heatmap

Default Reference Flow

  1. Call the gap-normalization SOP: unify gap format
  2. Identify stakeholder classes (CC judges autonomously or the user specifies)
  3. For each class of party, call the ahp-weighting SOP: generate that perspective's weight vector
  4. Run the four-dimensional scoring in parallel for each class of party (importance-scoring, feasibility-scoring, novelty-scoring, impact-scoring)
  5. Call the scoring-matrix-construction tactic: build the gap × party × dimension three-dimensional matrix
  6. Call the priority-sensitivity-testing tactic: test the effect of stakeholder weight changes on the consensus ranking
  7. Call the priority-synthesis SOP: Borda-count merge → consensus ranking + divergence report

context-checkpoint

After each round, record:

  • Stakeholder list and their weight vectors
  • The gap ranking under each stakeholder perspective
  • The consensus ranking (Borda scores)
  • The list of high-divergence gaps (annotated with the source of divergence)

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

TacticWhen to use
hypothesis-formation-scoring-matrix-constructionTactic: orchestrate multi-dimensional scoring SOPs to build a comprehensive assessment matrix for all gaps
priority-sensitivity-testingTactic: perturb scoring weights to test the robustness of the gap ranking against weight choice

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOPWhen to use
gap-normalizationSOP: Unify gaps from different sources into the standard GapRecord format