Dgm Method Design

Workflow

1. Start from the literature-backed problem.
   • What kind of decision support problem is being addressed?
   • Why is fragment retrieval insufficient?
2. Read the substrate only to determine:
   • what is already feasible
   • what remains implicit
   • what should be proposed at paper level
3. Define the smallest defensible method claim.
4. Specify the decision episode compactly.
5. Keep the component set minimal.
6. Map the design into a paper structure before drafting prose.
7. If needed, compress the draft aggressively for conference-paper density.

Preferred outputs

Analysis note

• Overview
• What the substrate already provides
• What remains implicit
• Why this matters for the thesis
• Key design opportunity

Design note

• Design objective
• Conceptual assumptions
• Scenario memory unit
• Core scenario components
• Optional supporting abstractions
• Layered framework
• Role of the LLM
• Minimal defensible contribution

Method section

Prefer this compact five-part structure unless the user asks otherwise:

• Method objective and organizing abstraction
• Decision episode representation
• Layered framework for decision-grade context
• Decision subgraph construction and role of the LLM
• Scope boundaries

Compression rules

When revising a method draft:

• remove repeated motivation
• let figures carry structure where possible
• merge overlapping subsections
• keep only the paragraphs that perform methodological work
• concentrate non-claims into one short boundary subsection

Repository-specific guidance

• Align Section 3 with the existing literature review and research positioning files.
• If figures already exist, reference them with placeholders in the section draft and use separate export files for figure-embedded versions.
• Keep 03_method.md as the manuscript-facing draft and use export variants for PDF-ready output.