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Statistics illustrating efficacy of Interpretive Structural Modeling in terms of time saved in group working sessions.

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Arizona System

Collection of papers related to electronic meetings systems lab established at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Warfield saw this lab as the antithesis of Interactive Management. (The papers are now located in Comparison Papers at George Mason University Special Collections & Archives Box 17.)
A bibliography of articles written by Harold D. Lasswell and others assembled by Warfield.
Paper presented by Warfield that criticizes shallow, hasty technology, which produces ‘invasive systems’ loaded with potential disaster. Warfield advocates a technology based on ‘deep logic’ which utilizes the tools of “Generic Design Science,” a continuous reevaluation process. Presented at 1989 Simposio Internacao de Comunicao Significao e Conhecimento face as Technologias de Informacao, 13-15 Sept., Lisbon. Later published in a proceedings of the conference. For further information find Warfield, J. N. "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline…

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An Assault on Complexity

A presentation of philosophical and mathematical fundamentals for techniques in the participative methodologies, for use in societal problem solving. Battelle Monograph No. 3
Notification that the new edition of the STOC (Symposium on Theory of Computing)/FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) bibliography will include two papers by Warfield. They are “Switching Networks as Models of Discrete Stochastic Process,” and “Switching Circuits as Topological Models in Discrete Probability Theory.”
Names and addresses of the 44 persons who attended one or more of the Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity. Lectures occurred during the 1998 fall semester.
An autobiography for the American Society for Cybernetics website. Requested by Stuart Umpleby.
Papers presented at the 6th International Congress of Cybernetics & Systems, of the WOGSC, organized by the College de Systemique de l'AFCET, 10-14 September 1984, Paris. Title and abstract in French but text is in English. English title: “Progress in Interactive Management.”

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Awards for IM Work

Unfinished article that includes list of people who have received awards for work using Interactive Management in different situations.
Handout that lists ten basic ideas for change. Distributed at System Requirements NASA Short Course, held at Holiday INN 1776, Williamsburg, VA, 15-20 September 1996.
Handout that lists ten basic ideas for change. Distributed at talk entitled “Interdisciplinary Domains and Complexity, 5 Schools of Thought” in Ypsilanti, Michigan at the Association for Information Systems’ Annual Conference in October 1996.
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