[AISWorld] European Design Science Workshop - Ireland/Leixlip

[Markus Helfert]

As part of the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference
(Ireland)  the Innovation Value Institute (www.ivi.ie) is co-organising
the "European Design Science Workshop"

on Thursday, 14th of October 2010
at Intel Ireland in Leixlip, Ireland

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum and platform for
both researchers and practitioners. The workshop is geared at the
exchange of knowledge, experiences and to discuss ideas on how design
science can be applied to research in IT.


Further Information:
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http://www.intel.com/corporate/education/emea/event/irc/ireland/workshops.htm#EDSW
Registration Deadline: 1 October, 2010


Background:
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Design Science creates and evaluates IT artefacts intended to solve
identified organizational problems. Such artefacts are represented in a
structured form that may vary from software, formal logic, and rigorous
mathematics to informal natural language descriptions. The rich
phenomena that emerge from the interaction of people, organizations, and
technology may need to be qualitatively assessed to yield an
understanding of the phenomena adequate for theory development or
problem solving. As field studies enable behavioural-science researchers
to understand organizational phenomena in context, the process of
constructing and exercising innovative IT artefacts enable
design-science researchers to understand the problem addressed by the
artefact and the feasibility of their approach to its solution.

Developing innovative artefacts is a central activity in Design Science
Research. Such artefacts can be in the form of constructs, models,
methods or instantiations. For the construction of such artefacts two
basic activities can be differentiated: build and evaluate where
building “is the process of constructing an artefact for a specific
purpose” and evaluation “is the process of determining how well the
artefact performs”. This workshop will explore current thinking and
emerging challenges in the application of Design Science in IT.


Guests Speakers:
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Prof. Alan Hevner (University of South Florida)
Prof. Sven Carlsson (Lund University)
Mr. Jonas Sjostrom (Uppsala University)
Dr. Markus Helfert (Dublin City University)


Topics:
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*What makes projects different when using a design science approach?
*What are typical design science projects?
*What are the challenges in a design science project?
*What are the advantages and limitations of following a design science
approach?
*How can practitioners’ benefit from a design science approach?
*What is the role of researchers and practitioners in design science
projects?
*What is the demand for design science projects?


In addition to presentations and shared experiences from invited guest
speakers, we encourage participants to actively contribute and
participate in the discussions. In order to provide a platform for
innovative ideas and initiating collaborative projects, participants
have the opportunity to outline or propose design science oriented
projects. Proposals may include existing projects, challenges and
problems or project ideas.



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Dr. Markus Helfert
School of Computing

Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9, Ireland


Head of Business Informatics Research Group
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/big/

Programme Chair European MSc in Business Informatics
Lecturer in Information Systems
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi/


Phone:  +353-1-700-8727
Fax:    +353-1-700-5442
Office: L2.26
Email: markus.helfert at computing.dcu.ie
http://www.computing.dcu.ie
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