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This report is based on work Warfield did in Ghana in January 1990, and includes materials which he had already presented to CSIR in January 1999 (in a talk titled "Success Factors in Technology Transfer for Developing Nations") and is a follow on to his earlier consulting work in Ghana during 1989. The full title of this article is: Project and Funding Proposals for Development of Technology Transfer Centre. Report to Council for Scientific &…

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Project Experience

A capability statement written to accompany proposals from Institute for the Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS), this paper gives project descriptions of the activities in Warfield's institute through June 1992. See notes field for list of projects described.
In English, the title of this article is "A Course in Generic Design for Engineers." The paper is a course outline for a college-level class, based on courses in generic design for engineering students taught by Professor Warfield at the University of Virginia in the early 1980s. See also, “A Course in Generic Design for Engineers (1995 version).”
This document was printed and used as the manual for the short course titled: Topics in Public Policy—Demands of Complexity on Writing and Research, Course No. PUBP 833-005, offered as a short course by The Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University 9-11 January 1995, and taught by Dr. Warfield. The manual consists of 154 pages, and is made up of some new writings plus several previously issued manuscripts and publications.
Proposes a field Systems Science that will fulfill at least five different roles: as a science of description, as a science of generic design, as a science of complexity, as a science of action, and as a science that incorporates methodologies from other disciplines when necessary. See also, “Original Manuscript for ‘A Proposal for Systems Science’” and “Forecast for Systems Science”
Proposal to teach a course of study on the subject of complexity that could be integrated into part of the ongoing public policy curriculum. He suggests that for this course his teaching pattern follow the British system of study - in which the student has only one examination taken at the end of his studies on the subject. The new Complexity course would include extensive use of Internet teaching, personal individual conferences with students, and…
A proposal to the National Science Foundation that Warfield carry on the work with Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) from his new job at the University of Virginia. For further information, "A User's Guide to Systems Methodology.”
A proposal to the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University to create a room designed for Interactive Management workshops. See also, Group Design Laboratory Use and Facilities" which describes a previous Demosophia. Later incorporated into "The Wandwaver Solution."
Warfield’s formal proposal to George Mason University to conduct a series of lectures on complexity. The proposal was accepted and the lectures occurred between September and December 1998 at the Johnson Center, George Mason University.
An unfinished paper where Warfield discusses ideas on complexity beginning with C. S. Peirce and leading toward work at Battelle and later.
A draft small encyclopedia of the thought and work of Warfield. The manuscript is indexed and also contains six appendices, which are chiefly bibliographic lists of various sorts.
A title page plus a set of eight transparencies, all of them new in 1999. Prepared for use as a handout for an Interactive Management Workshop taught for Phil Ernzen and PSOL students in Room 311 Johnson Center, 15-18 February 1999. See notes field for a list of the transparencies.
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