It provides guidelines on how to effectively structure research goals, how to analyze research problems concerning design goals and knowledge questions, how to validate artifact designs and how to empirically investigate artifacts in context – and finally how to present the results of the design cycle as a whole.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2016-08-23
Mått155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt536 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Roel Wieringa is Chair of Information Systems at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research interests include modelling and design of e-business networks, requirements engineering and research methodology for software engineering and information systems.
I A Framework for Design Science.- 1 What is Design Science?.- 2 Research Goals and Research Questions.- II The Design Cycle.- 3 The Design Cycle.- 4 Stakeholder and Goal Analysis.- 5 Implementation Evaluation and Problem Investigation.- 6 Requirements Specification.- 7 Treatment Validation.- III Theoretical Frameworks.- 8 Conceptual Frameworks.- 9 Scientific Theories.- IV The Empirical Cycle.- 10 The Empirical Cycle.- 11 Research Design.- 12 Descriptive Inference Design.- 13 Statistical Inference Design.- 14 Abductive Inference Design.- 15 Analogic Inference Design.- V Some Research Methods.- 16 A Roadmap of Research Methods.- 17 Observational Case Studies.- 18 Single-case Mechanism Experiments.- 19 Technical Action Research.- 20 Statistical Difference-Making Experiments.- A Checklist for the Design Cycle.- B Checklist for the Empirical Cycle.