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Warfield gives a definition of complexity which he has drawn from Peirce's famous essay How to Make Our Ideas Clear: "Complexity is that sensation experienced in the human mind when, in observing or considering a system, frustration arises from lack of comprehension of what is being explored."
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Facilitator Training: [Part 1] Instructor Training Guide and [Part 2] Learner Training Guide. (Working Draft)
Summary: Pending
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Simple System Models Based on Sophisticated Assumptions
In this article there is a a great deal of explanation and interpretation of Warfield's Domain of Science Model, which he had first introduced in his 1986 paper The Domain of Science: Evolution and Design.
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The Complexity Lectures (Disk 2 of 2)
A set of videotaped lectures with accompanying transparencies on the subject of complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University, during the 1998 Fall Semester. Warfield divided the lectures into four groups: Philosophy of Complexity, Science of Complexity, Applications in Industry and Government, and Implications for Higher Education. There were three lectures associated with each of the four categories. (Three of the lectures, however, were not videotaped). This is the second of two disks.…
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Excerpts From Interactive Management Workshop: Demo Tape 1
A demonstration videotape, contains seven short excerpts from video filmed during the Product Information Management Systems (PIMS) Workshop, held in Dearborn, Michigan for Ford Motor Company 11-14 January 1994. For a textual description of the video, see “Demo Tape: Excerpts from FORD PIM Workshop filmed Jan. 11-14, 1994 in Dearborn, Michigan,”“Excerpts: Interactive Management (IM) Workshop - Product Information Management System (PIMS): A First Look” and “Notes on the Ford Product Information Management (PIMS) Workshop Held…
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The Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: The Beginnings
A DVD video recording of Warfield’s acceptance speech a for receiving the Joseph G. Wohl Award at the Annual Meeting of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society in Taipei, Taiwan, October 2006. It is the highest award offered by the Society. See also, "The Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society: The Beginnings Manuscript of acceptance speech for IEEE-SMC Joseph G. Wohl Award, Taipei, Taiwan October 2006"
An audiotape recording with Dean of the Business School Coleman Raphael, this was the first of a series of six presentations by Warfield on the subject of Higher Education held during the academic year 1989-1990. The purpose of the seminar series was "to explore the concept of what would constitute a great university, and how such an institution might be established." Each presentation included a response from a member of the GMU faculty or administration…
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