Abstract
This paper is a preliminary report of the "Research into Artifacts" agenda and shapes the outline of artifactual engineering. It point out that abduction as a core of creation serves also as a core of integration plays crucial role in understanding and modeling of synthesis. Similarly, artifactual engineering that aims at decompartmentalization should integrate various theories about activities of design, manufacture, and other life cycle stages based on ontologies about activities based on abduction. Finally, it is argues that such activities are understood in the context of service engineering that looks at services, as opposed to traditional engineering that focuses on function.
