Design science methodology for information systems and software engineering [electronic resource] / Roel J. Wieringa.

I A Framework for Design Science
1 What is Design Science?
2 Research Goals and Research Questions
II The Design Cycle
3 The Design Cycle
4 Stakeholder and Goal Analysis
5 Implementation Evaluation and Problem Investigation
6 Requirements Specification
7 Treatment Validation
III Theoretical Frameworks
8 Conceptual Frameworks
9 Scientific Theories
IV The Empirical Cycle
10 The Empirical Cycle
11 Research Design
12 Descriptive Inference Design
13 Statistical Inference Design
14 Abductive Inference Design
15 Analogic Inference Design
V Some Research Methods
16 A Roadmap of Research Methods
17 Observational Case Studies
18 Single-case Mechanism Experiments
19 Technical Action Research
20 Statistical Difference-Making Experiments
A Checklist for the Design Cycle
B Checklist for the Empirical Cycle.