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for this activity include knowledge of the state of the problem and the importance of its solution

(Peffers, Tuunanen, et al. 2006)

DSR has its roots in engineering and other applied sciences. An important foundation is Simon’s

conceptualization (Simon 1996), where he notes that schools of architecture, engineering, business,

education, law, and medicine, are all centrally concerned with design. Here, take the Engineer’s field

of knowledge, the design is centrally anchored to the application meeting the stakeholders’ value-

perceptions, primarily rooted in “The Social World”. These solutions should, and can necessarily,

not directly be justified theoretically, such as expansion of the traditional scientific knowledge fields

is forced to be. For