The Design Science research community believes that Design Science involves creating, constructing, studying and evaluating innovative artifacts associated with processing of information in human enterprise such as constructs, frameworks, models, methods, and systems; as well as the study of methods, behaviors, processes related to information and information technology design. Questions and concerns in Design Science, therefore, relate to choosing appropriate domains in which individuals and teams would intervene, the context in which these interventions would take place, and the consequences of these interventions.
Design, by definition, is generative and aimed at creating things that did not exist in the world. Design Science, then, aims at furthering our understanding of how this comes about. Modes to achieve this include actually designing artifacts, interactions and environments, constructing abstractions that can help in this designing, and studying design activities at individual, group, organizational, industrial and societal levels of analyses. This notion of Design and Design Science presents innumerable challenges for students of information technologies because of the inherently interdependent nature of information technologies and the phenomena they are expected to represent, supplement, support, automate and transform. As a consequence, Design Science research is well positioned to become a significant research approach in a number of disciplines related to computing, information systems and information sciences and technologies.
See past conferences
DESRIST 2008
DESRIST 2007
DESRIST 2006
This year's conference theme is Diversity in Design Science
Important Dates
- Submission of Papers: Jan 30, 2009 - view the call for papers
- Acceptance Notification: Mar 10, 2009
- Camera Ready Submission: Apr 10, 2009
- Early Conference Registration Closes: Apr 10, 2009
- Conference Dates: May 7-8, 2009
