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Design science (methodology)

Design science research (DSR) is a research paradigm focusing on the development and validation of prescriptive knowledge in information science. Herbert Simon distinguished the natural sciences, concerned with explaining how things are, from design sciences which are concerned with how things ought to be, that is, with devising artifacts to attain…

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Information technologyGuidelinesEvaluationIterationArtifacts
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Guidelines in information systems research

Information SystemsProblem domainUtilityManagement
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Design science (methodology)

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