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List of Publications: CIM
A list of 41 reports produced by the Center for Interactive Management (CIM) during its operations at the University of Virginia and George Mason University. At least one report, however, is not listed. For a complete list, see “Annotated Bibliography of Project Reports April 1982 - March 1987.”
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Warfield's Sherlock Holmes Opera
A folder containing mixed-media items including recordings of Warfield playing the piano and his unfinished lyrics for an operetta; he composed for fun.
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John N. Warfield (1925-2009): A Pioneer in the Systems Movement
An obituary written by George Klir, editor of the International Journal of General Systems, which published a number of Warfield’s articles. For more information please use https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081070903541240.
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Ode to Endless Love: Warfield's English Translation
Warfield’s translation of the Spanish poem “Ode to Endless Love,” written by Reynaldo Trevino, one of Warfield’s colleagues.
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Paradigm Villages and Rivers of Science
A discussion of the possible connections and avenues of future research on “Rivers of science” and “Paradigm Villages.” Warfield defines the former as “those long-lived flows of development of concepts such as the logic of Aristotle for which a clear flow of development can be traced for over 2,000 years; and such as Newtonian mechanics evolving into modern-day astronomy; for which contributions rely on a knowledge of the nature of the scientific flow.” Paradigm Villages…
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Knowledge Management in the ERP Era
This paper was the lead editorial in a "Special Issue" of the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science. For more information please use https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sres.765.
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The Role of Science in System Design with Examples
A handwritten and typewritten outline of a talk in which Warfield discusses his work in System Design. Also includes correspondence regarding the presentation.
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Principal Subsystems (Dimensions) and Legacy Organizational Structures
The full caption at top of page is "Table 1. Principal Subsystems (Dimensions) and Legacy Organizational Structures." Along with, "Systems Science and Incremental Globalization," this is likely part of an intended manuscript.
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A Small-Town Boy at Work
An autobiographical booklet, the majority of which consists of two printouts of previously published articles. The two articles are 1) “Systems Profile: 1925 to Now” and “Systems Movement: Autobiographical Retrospectives: Discovering Systems Science.”
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Book Review: World Class Systems Engineering for the 21st Century: A New Systems Methodology by Derek K. Hitchens
A ten page review of Derek K. Hitchens’s book manuscript, which was published under the title Systems Engineering a 21stCentury Systems Methodology (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2007). Review reflected much of Warfield’s attitudes toward the current state of systems engineering.
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The New Systems Language
Unfinished manuscript with handwritten edits. As part of his campaign to reform higher education using the tools of Systems Science, Warfield proposes a series of three papers: the first would directed to the negatives of the current state of higher education, the second would be directed to the positives, and the third would integrate both the positive and negatives as a way of creating a program of action. Printouts of the PowerPoint presentation “Foucault’s Space…
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Paper for Klir's Journal-Drafts
A collection of short papers for George Klir’s International Journal of General Systems. Some of the papers are complete while others are only drafts. See notes field for further details.
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