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This paper contributes to the ebb and flow of innovations in decision support system design by presenting the MODDE methodology (Model Of Decision support system Design and Evaluation). It utilizes a simple conceptualisation of the software engineering process, and aims to provide computer consultants with guidance to the way they may include consideration of three qualitative dimensions of high level autonomous decision making. These three dimensions—discretion, consistency and resolution—have arisen directly from work in an applied legal domain. MODDE facilitates systematic attention to these dimensions in a way not previously done and thus complements existing software and requirements engineering practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argues that discretion manifests differently in different representations of knowledge. Discretion in legal theory; First-order logic formalization; Association between discretion and a Toulmin representation of reasoning; Analysis of consistency.