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A manuscript for a (unsuccessful) proposal to initiate Generic Design Science as an academic discipline, with practical applications put to use through a program of Resident and Visiting Fellowships in which the proposed Center would train visiting faculty from other universities. Includes diagraph of Domain of Science Model and photographs of DEMOSOPHIA, the situation room at Center for Interactive Management, GMU.
An application in 1994 and again in 1995 for the Presidential Medal of Technology, which is awarded annually by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Henry Alberts proposed Warfield as a candidate for the Medal, and was the official Nominator. Alberts and others signed the nomination and sent letters supporting it. Warfield, however, was the one who had to fill out the application form and compile all sorts of biographical and professional documentation in order…
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Paper opens with quote from Graham Wallas and proceeds to introduce idea of an “Aristotle Index” to measure complexity. The JOPES problematique is used as an example to explain the concept. The complexity measure is expressed in mathematical terms. Folder also includes simplified version used as a transparency or handout. See also, “The Aristotle Index: Measuring Complexity in the 21st Century.” This paper was also included in "1997 Essays on Complexity (Mid-Year Edition)."
Table of works and works-in-progress as of 22 January 2001 that Warfield intended to add to his “All Files Indexed.”
This booklet contains copies of the newspaper of the Center for Interactive Management, from its inception in 1982 at the University of Virginia until is dissolution at George Mason University in the spring of 1989.
A table Warfield used to document his exchange of letters with university officials regarding his need for further office space to continue contract work at Ford. Includes summaries and not actual letters or emails.
A collection of references to many of Warfield’s work gathered to include in book “Mathematics of Modeling.” Also contains complete pages filled with transparency pages.
Description of the step-by-step sequence for a typical Interactive Management Workshop. Notes will be helpful to people who borrowed the Interactive Management Workshop videos to study Interpretive Structural Modeling and help explain what is happening. Includes copy of email written by Benjamin Broome on how to do category naming.
A short article, only one page long in the journal in which it was printed, where it was a "note" or correspondence item.
One page attached to a collection of photocopied articles, apparently intended to be used as reference material for a projected paper
Expressing concern about systems engineering curriculum, Warfield proposes the term "Conceptual Sciences" to represent disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, graphics, art, semantics and psychology, which he feels should be aggregated into a new constellation of systems sciences.
An analysis of two Interactive Management workshops conducted at Defense Systems Management College.
Memo composed to go with a talk he was giving in which he showed pieces of the 1992 workshop. See also, “Notations for Watching ISM Videos.”
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MCC was a research corporation or manufacturing corporation in Austin where Warfield went to give an informal talk during the time he was in Austin for the IDTP Meeting in December 1995.
Discussion of the "Star Wars" or SDI program, emphasizing the problems of government waste and mismanagement which accompany the controversial project. Distributed as a handout for a first year class offered at George Mason University in the PAGE PROGRAM a program promoting "computer literacy.”
Satirical poem sent to a journal.
A description of three projects funded by U.S. Office of Environmental Education - the Arizona project, the Far West Lab project and the University of Virginia Consortium - along with Warfield's development of a conceptual structure of what defines a national system of environmental education, with goals and methods, for use in effective curriculum development and teacher training, on a local, a regional and a national basis, systematically integrated. Presented at The Institute '78 on…
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