The eighth DESRIST conference will bring together researchers and practitioners engaged in all aspects of design science research, with a special emphasis on the meeting points of physical and virtual designs. Apart from theoretical contributions we are encouraging submissions on specific solutions, such as products and prototypes. We invite contributions (research papers and panel proposals) that describe work in different areas of design science research, including, but not limited to, the following:

Science of Design and Design Theory
Evaluation of Design Science Research
Design Processes
Principles of Design
Representations for Design
Innovations in Service Design
Development of Service Systems
Design Economics
Modularity and Rules in Design
Architectures for Design
Design of Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial & Business Information Services
Design for Environmental Sustainability, Energy Informatics, GreenIS and GreenBPM
Emerging Methods and Tools in Design Science Research
Embedded Systems, Ubiquitous Computing, Smart Objects and Environments
Case Studies on Value Creation through IT

DESRIST 2013 invite papers and panels as well as product and prototype presentations.