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Written by Prof. Benjamin J. Broome, this is a book review of the first edition of Warfield's Generic Design book, a two-volume soft-cover version published in 1990 by Intersystems.
This is the earliest known version of a paper prepared by Warfield for the NSF Project. See “User’s Guide to Systems Methodology,” “Understanding Delta Charts” and “Understanding Delta Charts: Transparencies.”
Printouts of a slide lecture that proposes a definition and a measurement system for the true nature of complexity. Discusses the ideas of Friedman, Aristotle, Harary, De Morgan, Miller, Delbecq as precursors to Warfield's system of complexity metrics. Warfield's "Interactive Management" is proposed as the tool for determining the complexity of a situation. PowerPoint slides used in a classroom lecture at the University of Hull, England, as part of a summer school session provided by…
Describes a unique methodology for coping with complexity - Interpretive Structural Modeling - which, with its efficient and rapid organization of knowledge, can become the basis for dramatic social gains. The book contains all of the theoretical and mathematical back-ground for the ISM process and it remains in use as the major source for persons wishing to develop software for Interpretive Structural Modeling. This is a soft-cover reprint of Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity…
This is the book Understanding Complexity, 2002 in a PDF File. The digitized book manuscript has an extra blank page (p. 217) which shouldn’t be there, thus causing the index to be inaccurate in some parts of the book.
An early draft of what would become Understanding Complexity, 2002.
Description of the terminology and uses of a DELTA chart. DELTA is an acronym for the words “Decision,” “Event,” “Logic,” “Time” and “Activity.” The paper is an upgrade of an earlier paper by Warfield & Hill titled “The DELTA chart: A Method for R&D Project Portrayal.” See also, pack Transparencies for “Understanding DELTA Charts” which contains enlarged page-size figures of the eleven illustrations used in this manuscript.
This is a four-page introduction followed by 51 transparencies Warfield took to a talk titled "The Science of Generic Design: Foundations and Applications", a plenary session presentation at the First Annual Meeting of the International Society for Design and Process Science, University of Texas, IC2 Center, Austin, Texas, 9 December 1995. See also, "A Philosophy of Design December 1995" which is a handout from the same talk.
This was written for a second edition of the Guide to the John N. Warfield Collection, but was never used because it directed reader toward two appendices which in the end were not printed in the GUIDE.
A manual for systems engineers. Contains information on design of tree structures, interaction planning and management, problem definition, value system, analysis and optimizations, etc. Includes a description of the Warfield/Hill 'DELTA Chart" a more efficient type of flow chart than was currently in use. Written before ISM was put into use.
Argues that it is time to reconsider what constitutes a science and how to detect and prevent bad sciences from becoming a force in the misallocation of public and private funds. Introduces concept of “Universal Priors” to the definition of science, leading to the assertion that a basic reorganization of all human knowledge and thinking is both desirable and inevitable. Concludes with an outline of that reorganization, which is called "DOMAIN OF SCIENCE."
Considerably different than “Universal Priors to Science: Draft 1.” Argues that the faculty of liberal arts colleges are the only people could can easily meet the challenge of revitalizing science. They collectively maintain and sustain the knowledge of the human being, of the language, of reasoning through representation, and of appropriate archival representations. Denies that systematic and detailed planning is inconsistent with open and liberal thinking and argues that it can be accomplished with a…
Emails to/from Joseph Simpson, Warfield, Cihan Dagli, Henry Alberts, Mike Boston associated with planning, housing and travel arrangement for a systems science workshop/short course held in Sheffield, Alabama, 11-15 July 2007. See also, "Systems Science in a University Setting-Part 1," "Systems Science in a University Setting-Part 2" and "Systems Science in a University Setting - Notes."
A bunch of pages with math formulas.
Warfield did not actually present paper in Milwaukee. Shipped to GMU on 23 October 2000.
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An IM Report. Provides narrative overview and summary of 27 July 1990 USDA Acquisition Workshop (DSMC).
Step-by-step guide to Interactive Management (IM) software being sold by Bill Rodger, Desyma Decision Technologies, Inc. BRIMS stands for “Bill Rodger’s Interactive Management Software.” Written for the novice, it is subtitled “Creating Arrow-Bullet Diagrams, Field Diagrams, and Accompanying Documentation of the Interactive Management (IM) Process.”
A description of 43 different methodologies. Part I is a collection of one-page drawings, each accompanied by a 1-page outline of the methodology. Part II more fully describes each of the methodologies, with a DELTA chart drawn for each one. Full title: “A User's Guide to Systems Methodology, Parts I and II. Final Report to National Science Foundation, Grant AER 77-16865, (NSF/SES 81010) Dept. Engineering Science & Systems, Univ. of Virginia, (January 31, 1981).”
User guide to Interpretive Structural Modeling software for Windows. This User guide is now available as a free download from the jnwarfield.com website, using the URL http://www.jnwarfield.com/software/ism/ism.zip.
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