A precursor of the better known 1985 paper with the same title. Contains a brief description of the author's Engineering Design course which he had taught in the early `80's at the University of Virginia. Includes a photo of the DEMOSOPHIA room at George Mason University, which was similar to the situation room Warfield had designed and used as teaching and research facility while at University of Virginia. See also, See also, “Education in Generic…

Revised version of a course outline for a college-level class in generic design, based on courses Warfield taught at the University of Virginia in the early 1980s. Introduces the idea of "Laws" of generic design. Warfield's "Sigma 5" figure is included. See also, “Education in Generic Design” and papers with the same name from 1984 and 1985.

Outline of Math of Modeling course with the titles of 38 documents listed as materials for the course. Written as letter to Associate Director of TIPP. Includes article entitled “So You Are a Good Modeler: NOT YET!.”

Elaboration of the design and concept of a Regional Environmental Learning System (RELS). Includes theoretical models for RELS and a bibliography. Volume 3 of a 6-volume set of reference reports written for the U.S. Office of Environmental Education.

Presents a framework of all human knowledge which can be easily grasped and can be used as a tool for a more efficient design of complex, as well as simple projects. Therefore, it provides a more efficient integration of theoretical science and applied science. Discusses concept of Domain of Science, with its Universal Priors. Presented at 19th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, 5-6 May 1988, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Presents the fundamentals of what would become a paper entitled “Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change.” That paper introduces 17 "Laws of Complexity" and maintains that their use, in connection with "computer-assisted relational thinking to construct relationships among factors involved in complex issues" will furnish the necessary information to enable quality control to be applied to description, diagnosis, prescription and implementation of complex issues. Includes outline of talk and list of transparencies used. Presented at…

Critique of the federal government’s approach to making and enforcing laws and regulations. Finds seven problems. Intellectual Rape, Churchill Disease, Dry-Hole Stampede, Pearl Casting, Cadaverous Participation, Mahogany on Dry Rot and Royal Society Complex.

A proposal for the study and improvement of conditions for managed cultural adaptation of conflicting societies to enable them to coexist and cooperate in a stable way, utilizing the Interactive Management techniques. Targets for managed cultural evolution include various cultures and organizations, with emphasis on bureaucracies, corporations and universities.

Covers recent developments in the decision situation rooms. Identifies five different types of rooms: war room, conference room, social planetarium, management science room and the Demosophia. Relying on the application of consensus methodologies, Demosophia (from the Greek words for “wisdom” and “community”) is designed to improve individuals’ ability to work together. Used as a teaching resource at GMU.

The objective of this project for the National Science Foundation (NSF) was to design a learning sequence of mathematics courses which would best prepare students for competence in computer science. In the workshop sessions, software was used for the first time which enables a group to map a set of action options onto a problem structure. The resulting map is called a "resolution structure." A video copy of this workshop can be found here.

Paper written with Lynn Weaver, Warfield’s office-mate at Purdue during the 1956-1957 academic year.

An article for an Academic Press Encyclopedia. Warfield presents formal academically structured review of the topic of Cybernetics. Provides a glossary, a discussion of its origins and definitions, a list of learned societies involved in study of the topic, a look at the varying uses of the word to refer to automated control, robotics, communication/information, and the sociotechnical and biological systems. He closes with description of what he believes to be key issues yet unresolved…