ABSTRACT
Introduction In this chapter, we describe patterns from several perspectives: first their historical origins as a means of communicating architectural design themes, and then as they are used in this book to describe aspects of the art of design science research. The general design science research cycle is then revisited (from previous chapters) adapted specifically for use as a framework for understanding design science research projects. This is followed by briefly discussing how the patterns in this book were mined, a discussion of the related TRIZ (Wikipedia-TRIZ 2014) approach used mainly in engineering, and outlining the structure used in presenting the patterns in this book. The chapter concludes with an extended case study of the use of patterns in the design science research project-development of the smart object paradigm-recounted in narrative form in Chapter 2.
