Design Science: Perspectives from Europe : European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2012, Leixlip, Ireland, December 6, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

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. Front Matter....Pages - Design Science: Valid Knowledge for Socio-technical System Design....Pages 1-13 Beyond Usefulness: A Fitness-Utility Model for DSR....Pages 14-19 Strategy Formulation as a Design Science: An Investigation into the Effects of Deterministic and Path-Creation Design on the Formulation of a Strategy....Pages 20-28 Design Science and Design Patterns: A Rationale for the Application of Design-Patterns within Design Science Research to Accelerate Knowledge Discovery and Innovation Adoption....Pages 29-37 Design, Thinking and Science....Pages 38-48 Activity Cycles in Design Research: A Pragmatic Conceptualisation of Inter-related Practices....Pages 49-60 Solution Prototype: A Composed Artifact as Innovation Carrier....Pages 61-75 Process for Assessment Data Quality in Complex Service Oriented Architectures Using Design Science Approach....Pages 76-87 In-Place Translation in Information Systems Development....Pages 88-98 An Exploration of Customer-Centric Cloud Service Design....Pages 99-111 Towards a Normalized Systems Analysis Method: A Design Science Project Incorporating Empirical Research Methodologies....Pages 112-123 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....Pages 124-143 The DRIVES (Design Research for Innovation Value, Evaluation, and Sustainability) Model of Innovation....Pages 144-154 Engaging Practitioners within Design Science Research: A Natural Language Processing Case Study....Pages 155-169 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2013 held in Dublin, Ireland, in November 2013. The 9 papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers deal with various topics in the design science research.