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Contingencies

As some feasibility considerations are yet to be resolved, it is vital that alternative directions for this research are realised and suggested. One facet of this issue is concerned with times at which evaluation of progress, development and achievement ought to be approximated, apart from the formal evaluation in April 2004. By recognising dead-ends at the earlier stages of work, wasted effort can essentially be avoided. There are several types of problems that can come up:

1. A field is yet too poorly understood and there is a lack of basic knowledge to rely upon.
2. Effort is already invested in the exact same field or problems that the project poses are found to be resolved already.
3. The code dealt with is too hard to cope with.
4. Given algorithms or conventional methods are too slow to work with productively⁵¹.
5. Alternative solutions with greater potential are identified, thereupon requesting all attention to be diverted to them exclusively.
6. Experiments fail to produce the results expected.
7. Progress is held back by time restrictions.

Obstructions which are prone to happen more frequently would be 4, 5 and even quite frustratingly 6.