Design Science: Perspectives from Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Design Science: Valid Knowledge for Socio-technical System Design

      • Joan E. van Aken

      Pages 1-13

   2. Beyond Usefulness: A Fitness-Utility Model for DSR

      • Alan R. Hevner

      Pages 14-19

   3. Strategy Formulation as a Design Science: An Investigation into the Effects of Deterministic and Path-Creation Design on the Formulation of a Strategy

      • Gerard Duff, Krsto Pandza

      Pages 20-28

   4. Design Science and Design Patterns: A Rationale for the Application of Design-Patterns within Design Science Research to Accelerate Knowledge Discovery and Innovation Adoption

      • Martin Curley, Jim Kenneally, Colin Ashurst

      Pages 29-37

3. Research Papers

   1. Design, Thinking and Science

      • Frank Devitt, Peter Robbins

      Pages 38-48

   2. Activity Cycles in Design Research: A Pragmatic Conceptualisation of Inter-related Practices

      • Göran Goldkuhl

      Pages 49-60

   3. Solution Prototype: A Composed Artifact as Innovation Carrier

      • Arkın Efeoğlu, Charles Møller, Michel Sérié

      Pages 61-75

   4. Process for Assessment Data Quality in Complex Service Oriented Architectures Using Design Science Approach

      • Łukasz Ostrowski, Plamen Petkov, Markus Helfert

      Pages 76-87

   5. In-Place Translation in Information Systems Development

      • Jonas Sjöström, Madelen Hermelin

      Pages 88-98

   6. An Exploration of Customer-Centric Cloud Service Design

      • Brian O’Flaherty, Simon Woodworth, Colm Thornton, Yvonne O’Connor

      Pages 99-111

   7. Towards a Normalized Systems Analysis Method: A Design Science Project Incorporating Empirical Research Methodologies

      • Philip Huysmans, Jan Verelst

      Pages 112-123

   8. Enhancing Benefits from Healthcare IT Adoption Using Design Science Research: Presenting a Unified Application of the IT Capability Maturity Framework and the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model

      • Jim Kenneally, Martin Curley, Ben Wilson, Michael Porter

      Pages 124-143

   9. The DRIVES (Design Research for Innovation Value, Evaluation, and Sustainability) Model of Innovation

      • Alan R. Hevner, Brian Donnellan, Jack Anderson

      Pages 144-154

   10. Engaging Practitioners within Design Science Research: A Natural Language Processing Case Study

       • Seán O’Riain, Edward Curry, Paul Buitelaar

       Pages 155-169

4. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2012 held in Leixlip, Ireland, in December 2012 which was held in conjunction with the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, ERIC 2012. The 14 papers (4 invited papers and 10 full papers) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover the following topics: software, formal logic, rigorous mathematics, informal natural language descriptions.

• design patterns
• information systems
• knowledge management
• problem solving
• socio-technical systems

• School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  Markus Helfert

• Maynooth Innovation Value Institute, School of Business, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

  Brian Donnellan

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