Design science methodology: principles and practice

Roelf J. Wieringa

doi:10.1145/1810295.1810446

Design science methodology: principles and practice

Roelf J. Wieringa

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Abstract

Design scientists have to balance the demands of methodological rigor that they share with purely curiosity-driven scientists, with the demands of practical utility that they share with utility-driven engineers. Balancing these conflicting demands can be conceptually complex and may lead to methodological mistakes. For example, treating a design question as an empirical research question may lead to researcher to omit the identification of the practical problem to solve, to omit the identification of stakeholder-motivated evaluation criteria, or to omit trade-off and sensitivity analysis. This tutorial aims to clear up this methodological mist in the case of software engineering (SE) research.

Original language	Undefined
Pages	493-494
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1810295.1810446
Publication status	Published - May 2010
Event	32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 2 May 2010 → 8 May 2010 Conference number: 32

Conference

Conference	32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
Abbreviated title	ICSE
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	2/05/10 → 8/05/10

Keywords

SCS-Services
IS-Design science methodology
IR-83379
EWI-22392

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