Introduction -- Philosophy: Philosophical and methodological -- Reality construction as a product -- General applications: The policy Delphi -- Delphi inquiries and knowledge utilization -- The national drug -- A Delphi evaluation of agreement -- Delphi research in the corporate environment -- Plastics and competing materials by 1985 -- A Delphi on the future of the steel and ferroalloy industries -- Evaluation: Toward a theory of group estimation -- Experiments in Delphi methodology -- Propensity to change responses in a Delphi round -- The performance of forecasting groups -- Cross-impact analysis: An elementary cross-impact model -- An alternative approach to cross impact anaysis -- Specialized techniques: A Delphi study of factors affecting the quality of life -- Multidimensional scaling -- Differential images of the future -- Architecting the future -- Computers and the future of Delphi: Conferencing via computer -- Group communication through electronic -- Technology for group dialogue -- Computerized conferencing in a educational system -- Meeting of the council on cybernetic stability -- Eight basic pitfalls: a checklist

1. Delphi Method
2. Research Methodology