**2. Structured Expert Judgment Elicitation**

One of the AMA's focal points is the conceptual design integrating non-existent or prominent innovative technologies, often lacking deterministic test or performance data. This represents a challenge for the objective, transparent and scientific comparison of the generated aircraft solutions. In such cases, one usually seeks the professional opinion of domain experts [13,14]. Regardless of their expertise level, however, such assessments would always exhibit a certain level of subjectivity and uncertainty simply due to their human nature [15]. This is the motivation behind the research questions defined in Section 1.2.

For such purposes, researchers usually apply structured expert judgment elicitation (SEJE) methods. These define aspects such as elicitation type (remote or in person), questionnaire design, knowledge aggregation possibilities, uncertainty handling, etc. The current section will start by giving a definition of a SEJE method and presenting the most prominent approaches in this domain. Subsequently, the current research will be placed

into the literature context and positioned in reference to similar works. Finally, the concepts applied within this paper will be selected and justified.
