In the natural sciences, many research activities now require the support of digital artifacts. This digitalization of science has led to the need to develop essential, specialized, devices and software. Computational science is a branch of science that especially requires such artifacts. This research examines computational science to identify its challenges and successes in developing and applying digital artifacts as it moves to digital science. We propose that it might be possible and helpful to support digital artifact creation by applying results from research in design science. We are especially motivated by the types of problems encountered in computational science and how they might be supported by design science research methods and evaluation approaches to develop and assess artifacts for important, and complex, real-world problems. In a complementary manner, computational science could provide an area of inquiry for extending design science research into the natural sciences.

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自然科学的数字化：设计科学研究和计算科学


在自然科学领域，许多研究活动现在都需要数字工件的支持。这种科学数字化导致了开发基本、专业设备和软件的需求。计算科学是一门特别需要此类工件的科学分支。本研究考察了计算科学，以确定其在转向数字科学的过程中在开发和应用数字工件方面面临的挑战和成功。我们建议，通过应用设计科学研究的结果来支持数字工件创建可能是可能且有帮助的。我们特别受到计算科学中遇到的问题类型的激励，以及设计科学研究方法和评估方法如何支持这些问题，以开发和评估重要且复杂的现实世界问题的工件。作为补充，计算科学可以为将设计科学研究扩展到自然科学提供一个研究领域。