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A brief chronological list of a works related to Interpretive Structural Modeling. Includes author title and citation only, with an author index. It does not include annotations. For a revised version, see "Interpretive Structural Modeling and Related Work: Annotated Bibliography, Revised Edition" compiled in 1990.
Paper presented at the National Electronics Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 12-14 October 1959 by Kenneth Butler, a PhD student Assistant Instructor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas.
Contains Warfield’s patent for Digital Squelch System and information relating to the patent process. Schematic and summary narrative of patent included. Warfield signed over patent rights to his employer in whose company the invention work was done - Wilcox Electric Co., of Kansas City, MO.

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Dimensionality (1987)

A paper with the aim of proposing the concept of "Dimensionality" for general scientific purposes having an expanded meaning that encompasses earlier meanings, and which has the power to bring needed discipline to large-scale systems design. Zwicky's morphological box is used as a takeoff point to introduce the concept of "spaces of dimensionality higher than three." Shows that (in spite of reluctance of humans to grasp multi-dimensional problems) there exists a methodology where problems of…
A list of 14 individuals who have used Interpretive Structural Modeling and the consensus methodologies. Includes brief description of how and where they used them.
A collection of 18 problematiques from various Interpretive Structural Modeling workshops. Each one includes full explanation and interpretation of the figure. Report has two complete papers as appendices: “Complexity Measurement of Systems Design,” by Scott M. Staley and “Spreadthink” by Warfield.
No information on this article, but possibly related to an earlier published article in Switching Networks as Models of Discrete Stochastic Processes. In Julius T. Tou, Ed, APPLIED AUTOMATA THEORY.
Calls on educators to take seriously the need to sensitize people to complexity as a behavioral concept which higher education need to take steps to correct—particularly in those areas where the consequences of technomyopia threaten to bring down the educational system itself.

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Distributive Lattice

Distributive Lattice is the title Warfield used in his inventory index. It is a table that shows the cardinality of all the levels found in a distributive lattice that corresponds to an n-dimensional system for n lying in the range (0, 10).
Critique of John W. Burton, Resolving Deep-Rooted Conflict: A Handbook (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987).
Includes much of the day-by-day procession of the Primer Interloquium held in Guanajuato, Mexico 21-23 March 1994. Has documents from planning stages through to final days. Also included are documents related to an Interactive Management session held before an audience of several hundred in the State Auditorium of Guanajuato, facilitated by Alexander Christakis.
One of Warfield’s most important papers, it presents the Domain of Science Model as a way of clarifying the distinctions between science and technology and the relation of science to methodology. Argues that newer sciences need a disciplining mechanism, and that the DOS Model can furnish such a mechanism. This Model is based on the philosophy of science as expressed by C. S. Peirce. Warfield has used it consistently as a disciplining agent in developing…
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