This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2013 held in Dublin, Ireland, in November 2013. The 9 papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers deal with various topics in the design science research.

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Inhalt
Two hurdles to take for maximum impact of design science research in the IS-field.- Privacy and accountability in online communities: towards a theory of scrutiny.- An approach for reflectively discovering and synthesizing design knowledge for situated artifacts: the case of the early warning score chart.- Design thinking and evaluation using an ontology.- Applying design thinking throughout the product lifecycle in Dell Inc.- Sustainable connected cities: vision and blueprint towards managing IT for city prosperity and sustainability.- Solution prototyping with design thinking social media for SAP store: a case study.- Business process modelling in design science paradigm.- Sustaining IT usefulness re-defining end users' role as contextual designers.- Evaluating design science outputs the case of enterprise architecture business value assessments.