DESRIST 2008

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News and Announcements

[04/22/2008] Information on Short Paper Poster Sessions is available now.
[03/17/2008] Registration system is now open; preliminary program schedule is now available.
[01/24/2008] National Science Foundation funding has been awarded for DESRIST 2008. Funding includes stipends for Doctoral Consortium students and mentors, as well as other students.

Conference Overview

The importance of design science research springs from Herbert Simon’s The Science of the Artificial. His work inspired an entire body of research embracing goals to design and invent innovative artifacts such as constructs, frameworks, models, methods, processes and systems. The creation of IT artifacts and their evaluation is ideally suited for this paradigm. This conference explores aspects of design science research methodology as well as research exemplars of the genre. As with the first two DESRIST conferences, held successfully at Claremont in 2006 and Pasadena in 2007, the objective of this conference is to bring together researchers from many diverse backgrounds ranging from computer science, HCI, information systems, and software engineering to social ethnography, artistic, and architecture disciplines to create a forum for discussing novel solutions to emerging problems.

Design science is well suited to be a key research paradigm for mainstream research in computing and information systems. We seek design theory, design research methodology, and applications papers. Applications papers should clearly demonstrate how they are following a design science research methodology and thus can serve as design science research exemplars. We encourage contributions (papers, panels, teaching innovations, etc.) in all areas of design science, and especially excellent examples of design science research applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Science of Design and Design Theory
Philosophical foundations, ontology and epistemology of Design Science Research
Evaluation of Design Science Research
Design Processes
Representation of Design Problems
Design of Systems to Enhance Creativity
Design Evolution
Design Economics
Design Complexity
Design Modularity
Design Rules
Aspect-Oriented Design
Design Architectures
Representation Languages for Design

Rapid Design
Meta-Design Control in Design
Design of Software-Intensive Systems
Exemplars of design research in the areas of: Software Design, Database Design, Business Process Design, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Medical, Health and Bio-Informatics, Emerging Designs for Social and Virtual Collaboration, Networking and Multimedia Systems, Grid Computing and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Design of Knowledge Management Systems, Pervasive Computing, System Design, Decision Support Design, User Interface Design, etc.

Important Dates

Submission of Papers: Jan 15, 2008 - EXTENDED TO Jan 22, 2008.
Acceptance Notification: Mar 10, 2008
Deadline for DESRIST 2008 Doctoral Consortium Application: Mar 12, 2008
Deadline for DESRIST Student Stipend Application: Mar 21, 2008
Camera ready submission: Apr 10, 2008
Conference registration: Apr 10, 2008 (early bird registration closes)
Conference dates: May 7-9, 2008

Contact

For information and questions, please contact Art Vandenberg - avandenberg@gsu.edu (404-413-4743).