Abstract
Engineering design involves continuing stream of decision making, which has great impact on the design at much later stages. In this study, we explore the possibility of employing argumentation for modeling decision making process in design. After reviewing argumentation based qualitative decision model, we introduce a argumentation-based design rationale model derived from the qualitative decision model. We apply several cases of design problems taken from a real-world satellite development project called Nano-JASMINE, and discuss the kind of problems that the proposed model is suited for. We argue that the model is apt for problems that are significant and involve risk, which requires much attention and efforts of the designer.
