A set of transparencies for a presentation that discussed the Science of Complexity and Interactive Management. See also, “Vertical INCOHERENCE in Three-Level Organizations.” Presented at Ford Motor Company Ltd., Enterprise Process Reengineering Europe, Aveley, Essex, U.K. 7 July 1999.

Draft of A Science of Generic Design sent the George Mason University Press in 1989.

This draft copy of A Science of Generic Design is composed of the first four chapters of the book. Also includes a preface and a table of contents for all 10 of the proposed chapters as well as the proposed appendices and indexes, with each chapter followed by numerous sub-divisional titles.

The folder holds correspondence and other items, beginning with a 1985 outline for two book chapters which Warfield had sent as a memo to David Keever and Alexander Christakis, with whom he originally planned to write the book.

A guide to understanding Warfield’s computer files related to A Science of Generic Design.

Representing Warfield's work and research over the previous two decades, this book is a study of the basic structure of human knowledge and how it can best be utilized to resolve complexity by the use of newly developed methodologies. The First Edition of this book was published in two soft cover volumes in 1990. This was superseded in 1994 by a hard-cover edition from a different publisher as A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity…

Representing Warfield's work and research over the previous two decades, this book is a study of the basic structure of human knowledge and how it can best be utilized to resolve complexity by the use of newly developed methodologies.

Published on compact disk, this 3rd edition of A Science of Generic Design from AJAR Publishers is a reproduction of the hard cover 1994 Second Edition issued by Iowa State University Press which is out of print. The compact disk contains the text of the 1994 2nd edition, with a new outside cover design an updated verso page, two revised title pages listing Ajar Publishing Company, and a last page containing John Warfield's most recent…

Miscellaneous collection of letters and comments from people who read pre-publication manuscripts of A Science of Generic Design. See also, “A Science of Generic Design Review by Anita Taylor.”

A preliminary proposal describing a paper which Warfield hoped to present at the conference of the UKSS. The proposal was accepted. See, “Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity”

This is the first single-spaced, one-volume version of the manuscript. It has minor content changes since the January 1989 version; it also has the figure pages included in the pagination, with consecutively numbered pages for the first time. This May version was followed by a revision which was completed in July 1989.