Design Science: Perspectives from Europe European Design Science Symposium EDSS 2013, Dublin, Ireland, November 21-22, 2013. Revised Selected Papers

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.

Two hurdles to take for maximum impact of design science research in the IS-field.- Privacy and accountability in online communities: towards a theory of scrutiny.- An approach for reflectively discovering and synthesizing design knowledge for situated artifacts: the case of the early warning score chart.- Design thinking and evaluation using an ontology.- Applying design thinking throughout the product lifecycle in Dell Inc.- Sustainable connected cities: vision and blueprint towards managing IT for city prosperity and sustainability.- Solution prototyping with design thinking – social media for SAP store: a case study.- Business process modelling in design science paradigm.- Sustaining IT usefulness – re-defining end users’ role as contextual designers.- Evaluating design science outputs – the case of enterprise architecture business value assessments.