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This is a draft of formal document prepared for President George W. Johnson, containing proposals for the future of George Mason University. "The Interactive University" is the term coined by Warfield to describe the educational and organizational innovations he suggests as a goal for the year 2000. Warfield sent the draft manuscript to President Johnson on 8 July 1986.
Warfield seeks to explain the methods for understanding the significance of the graphical models generated by Interpreted Structural Modeling. Includes methods for dealing with “cycles” and how they may be weighted to give a more accurate picture, if this is needed.
Written by Warfield and reviewed carefully by Staley before printing, this is a summary covering the totality of the research and IM workshop activity performed by IASIS collaboratively with Ford Research Laboratory over the four year period 1990-1994.
Transitive interconnection of two transitive, multilevel structures in interpretive structural modeling is discussed, along with some implications for the modeling process.
Shipped to George Mason on 23 October 2000.
Research notes. Nice title typed on first page, followed by a page of green-inked notes and diagrams. Probably this is from the same time period as either the Graphics Language project in early 1980's, or the Graphics Representation Glossary in 1960's.
Presented at Instituto Tecnologico Y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Industrial Engineering Department Seminars, on 10 and 11 December 1990.
This is a collection of 31 transparencies printed and tape-bound as a manual, and used as a handout for the George Mason University 4-day Short Course on Complexity Science and Interactive Management, offered 15-18 February 1999. The full title is: “Transparencies for the Mathematics of Structure: Its Relevance to Knowledge Construction and Reconstruction in All Fields of Study."
Enlarged page-size figures of the eleven illustrations used in Warfield's 1978 manuscript “Understanding Delta Charts.”
An invited lecture at the Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory, Kawasaki, Japan, 16 November 1994.
Draft manuscript entitled “Science in Threes and Fours: Complexity in Perspective” along with handwritten notes.
Identification and discussion of twelve laws incorporated in the Science of Generic Design. They are the Laws of: Gradation, Universal Priors, Inherent Conflict, Limits, Validation, Success and Failure, Requisite Saliency, Requisite Variety, Triadic Compatibility, Structural Underconceptualization, Requisite Parsimony, and Uncorrelated Extremes. Also with the manuscript in the file folder is "Table 1, Overview of Origins and Significance of 12 laws of Generic Design, February 1990." which presents some of the talk in matrix format Warfield…
Transparencies and other materials to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 2.” The topics covered are Twenty laws of Complexity, Three Categories of the Laws, and Five Indices of Complexity, with values determined from applications. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. First of three lectures on topic of Science. This lecture was not videotaped.
Each Law is presented in a "Brief" which contains the title, its origins, references (if any), statement of the law and its interpretation.
An overview of the study of "a developing Science of Complexity" is followed by full descriptions of the Twenty Laws in a 30-page Appendix titled "Briefs of the Laws of Complexity." Each Law is presented with a descriptive "Brief" which is followed by an Interpretation of the Law.
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Email that identifies and discusses the two current, literature-based schools of thought about complexity. Finds that the two schools are alike in some respects. Both schools are connected to mathematical formalisms, though the visibility of these formalisms varies significantly in the literature of these Schools. Both schools perceive complexity within the context of the "observer-system" idea. In this idea, an observer, determined to study a "system," is actively engaged in doing so. The distinction between…
Discussion of the Killer Assumptions. Article includes short annotated bibliography which provides brief summaries of works by 17 other authors as well as 10 of his own. The document finishes with a reprint of the "Example IM Workshop Plan."
One of the earliest presentations of the `Domain of Science' graphical design. Warfield displayed a transparency of his earlier DOS figure titled " A Model for a Domain of Science,” and proposed the use of a Domain of Science model as a means of judging the merit and validity of laws, stating that “laws are legitimized by their relevance in applications.” Presented at Annual Meeting of American Society for Cybernetics, Virginia Beach, VA, 19-23 February…
Transparencies to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 4.” Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University during 1998 Fall semester at George Mason University. It was the first of three lectures on the topic of HIGHER EDUCATION. Click here for a video of this lecture.
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