Design science research in information systems : advances in theory and practice ; 7th international conference, DESRIST 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA, May 14-15, 2012 : proceedings / Ken Peffers, Marcus Rothenberger, Bill Kuechler (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a Comprehensive Online Peer Assessment System / Design Outline / Dmytro Babik, Lakshmi S. Iyer and Eric W. Ford -- Designing Digital Innovation Contests / Anders Hjalmarsson and Daniel Rudmark -- Evaluating APIs: A Call for Design Science Research / Bala Iyer and George Wyner -- Designing for Recombination: Process Design through Template Combination / Arvind Karunakaran and Sandeep Purao -- Design Principles for Inter-Organizational Systems Development -- Case Hansel / Heikki Lempinen, Matti Rossi and Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen -- Using Design Science Research to Develop a Modeling Technique for Service Design / Lysanne Lessard and Eric Yu -- Towards a Decision Tool for Choosing a Business Process Maturity Model / Amy Van Looy, Manu De Backer and Geert Poels -- Implementing Design Principles for Collaborative ERP Systems / Wendy Lucas and Tamara Babaian -- Applying Design Science Research for Enterprise Architecture Business Value Assessments / Martin Meyer, Markus Helfert, Brian Donnellan and Jim Kenneally -- Designing-in-the-Large: Combining Local Perspectives to Generate Enterprise-Wide Integration Solutions / Sandeep Purao, Narasimha Bolloju and Chuan Hoo Tan -- Emergency Response System Design: An Examination of Emergency Communication Messages / Rohit Valecha, Raj Sharman, Raghav Rao and Shambhu Upadhyaya -- An Approach for Smart Artifacts for Mobile Advertising / Upkar Varshney.

Towards a Unified Design Theory for Creativity Support Systems / Matthias Voigt, Björn Niehaves and Jörg Becker -- What Makes Corporate Wikis Work? Wiki Affordances and Their Suitability for Corporate Knowledge Work / M. Lisa Yeo and Ofer Arazy -- Design Science as Design of Social Systems -- Implications for Information Systems Research / Andreas Drechsler -- Towards Design Engineering of Ubiquitous Information Systems / Wolfgang Maass and Sabine Janzen -- Technical Action Research as a Validation Method in Information Systems Design Science / Roel Wieringa and Ayşe Moralı -- Decision Enhancement for Sourcing with Shared Service Centres in the Dutch Government / Arjan Knol, Henk Sol and Johan van Wamelen -- Designing a Framework for Virtual Management and Team Building / Jan Pries-Heje and Lene Pries-Heje -- Integrating Organisational Design with IT Design / The Queensland Health Payroll Case / António Rito Silva and Michael Rosemann -- Common Citation Analysis and Technology Overlap Factor: An Empirical Investigation of Litigated Patents Using Network Analysis / Srikar Velichety and Sudha Ram -- Environmental Sustainability in Design Science Research: Direct and Indirect Effects of Design Artifacts / Jan vom Brocke and Stefan Seidel.

Design Science Research and the Core of Information Systems / Ahmad Alturki, Wasana Bandara and Guy G. Gable -- Anatomy of Knowledge Bases Used in Design Science Research / A Literature Review / Oliver Gaß, Norbert Koppenhagen, Harald Biegel, Alexander Maedche and Benjamin Müller -- Characterizing Design Science Theories by Level of Constraint on Design Decisions / Bill Kuechler and Vijay Vaishnavi -- On the Relationship between the IT Artifact and Design Theory: The Case of Virtual Social Facilitation / Björn Niehaves, Kevin Ortbach and Asin Tavakoli -- Towards a Formal Approach to Information Systems Design Theory Using Category Theory / George R. Widmeyer -- Evaluations in the Science of the Artificial -- Reconsidering the Build-Evaluate Pattern in Design Science Research / Christian Sonnenberg and Jan vom Brocke -- Design Science Research Evaluation / Ken Peffers, Marcus Rothenberger, Tuure Tuunanen and Reza Vaezi -- Design of Software Agent-Populated Electronic Negotiation System and Evaluation of Human -- to -- Agent Negotiations / Rustam Vahidov and Gregory E. Kersten -- A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluation in Design Science Research / John Venable, Jan Pries-Heje and Richard Baskerville.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DERIST 2012, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in May 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 7 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on DSRIS in practice, DSRIS methodologies and techniques, social and environmental aspects of DSRIS, theory and theory building in DSRIS, and evaluation of DSRIS projects.