Portrait of Roland M. Mueller

Validity-Centred Design of AI-Based Information Systems

Designing AI-based systems that remain verifiable.

I am Professor of Information Systems, in particular Business Intelligence and Analytics, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) and Visiting Professor at the University of Twente.

My research develops a validity-centred design methodology for AI-based information systems: claims about the validity of models, measurements, inferences and actions are represented explicitly, linked to evidence and re-checked whenever models or data change. It combines design science, validity and measurement theory, ontologies and large language models, and I transfer it into health care, critical infrastructure and public administration.

118publications, including MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research
3,449citations · h-index 28 (Google Scholar, October 2026)
≈ 400applicants from 49 countries for the master's programme I designed
20+years of teaching data science, analytics and Information Systems

Selected projects

Validity in Design Science
Which evidence justifies which claim about an artefact?
Validity · Design Science
The ITEM Ontology
The semantic anatomy of psychometric indicators
Validity · AI-based Measurement
SemanticIS
Semantic search and knowledge synthesis for Information Systems research
Knowledge & Modelling · Prototype
Futures Methods for Design Science
Designing and evaluating future-oriented artefacts with experts and AI
Digital Transformation · Futures
PsyProxy
Where language becomes measurement: interpretable AI for text
Validity · AI-based Measurement · Transfer
Fruitfulness in Design Science
Evaluating contributions by what they make possible
Validity · Design Science
Human-centered AI Methods
Innovation methods for data- and AI-based products and business models
Digital Transformation · Innovation Methods
Design Knowledge & Design Science Methods
What designers know, and the methods design research uses to study it
Design Science Methods
Information Systems Ontology
A machine-readable vocabulary of the theories, methods and topics of IS research
Knowledge & Modelling · Ontology