This is simply a two-page summary of a lengthy talk during which Warfield showed a few transparencies on an overhead projector, and also handed out some printed transparencies of additional materials. The talk outline covers not only Warfield's own 30 minute presentation, (titled A Philosophy of Design) but an entire morning session which he coordinated, consisting of videos and talks by Roxana Cardenas, Scott Staley, & Lynn Sullivan. For further information on the talk, see…

Text of a paper given at a conference. It is a discussion of seven milestones, or significant contributions, to archival knowledge relevant to the representation of products of human thought (as distinguished from the biological activity involved in thinking). For the transparencies used during the talk, see “Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, Cell Packet.” Presented at 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, 23-26 October 1997, Broyhill Conference Center, Appalachian State…

First used at a lecture on Complexity Management before the AAAS Fellows in 1997. This was a "pop Quiz" given the group at the beginning of the talk. It is a takeoff on the television quiz show "Jeopardy." It provides the reader significant details about eight important scientific figures, then asking "Who was he?”

Criteria for writing a scientific proposal and application of these criteria to Antonio Morales' "Project Distrievan" proposal, demonstrating how it could be improved.

Unfinished paper that critiques the discipline of Economics. Includes inked corrections.

After identifying nine specific functions which are entailed good group design work, Warfield presents a set of 31 key criteria, chosen to enhance these functions. The key criteria are displayed in a chart with the criteria divided into nine categories, which can assist in making good selections from the large number of methodologies that are being recommended for participative activity. Written for the Bombay-New Delhi IEEE conference, held in India 30 December 1983 – 7…

This guide was written as a final report for a teaching/research contract sponsored by Defense Systems Management College. The report follows on Warfield’s time teaching classes to DSMC faculty and staff and assisting in planning and conducting Interactive Management workshops. It is prepared to help the reader develop a self-study program regarding complexity, system design, Interactive Management, or some combination of these three.

Written to be part of a Festschrift volume to be published in honor of Charles Francois. Identifies and discusses seven challenges for system scholars and practitioners. Provides suggestions for overcoming them. Warfield later wrote a revised version titled “A Challenge for Systems Engineers: To Evolve Toward Systems Science, part 1 and part 2. .

Transparencies to accompany “Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, Paper.” It is a discussion of seven milestones, or significant contributions, to archival knowledge relevant to the representation of products of human thought, as distinguished from the biological activity involved in thinking. See notes field for a list of the transparencies used. Presented at 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, 23-26 October 1997, Broyhill Conference Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.…

Transparencies to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 5.” Dr. John N. Warfield discusses the history and evolution of human thought, focusing on seven “milestones” or significant developments. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. Second of three lectures on topic of Philosophy.

Discussion of why simple prose is insufficient when studying complexity. Presentation covers topics including the Domain of Science Model, Structural Fields, Structural Profiles, Friedman's Constraint Theory, Total Inclusion Structure, Delta Chart, Partition Structure, Arrow Bullet Diagrams, Options Fields and Options Profiles. Presented for the George Washington University Notational Engineering Laboratory Seminar held 28 February 1996

A translation into Chinese of John N. Warfield, Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (New York: Wiley, 1976). Translated by Bi Jian Guo, Ping Guo, Huai Zhu Xie, Chuan Yiu Wang and Li Da Xu. The translation was edited by Yin Yuan and Xue Ming Huang.