This is the original publication of this bibliography at the University of Virginia in 1980. It is a list of books and papers published between 1959 and 1981, that are all related in some way to the development of Warfield's Interactive Management methodology.
Published while the author was a professor at the University of Virginia, this was the first bibliography giving sources of information about the theory and applications and possible future uses of Interpretive Structural Modeling, listing significant early books on symbolic logic and Boolean algebra followed by a chronological listing of the development of the ISM theory in Warfield's work and in many papers and books about his work written by others.
Warfield decided to write this bibliography after a trip to Japan in 1978 to attend the International Conference of the Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. In Tokyo he discovered that many Japanese authors unknown to him were studying and using Interpretive Structural Modeling. He collected the titles of all the Japanese papers he could discover and combined them with papers by himself and his colleagues, to produce a small annotated bibliography. This was printed as a University of Virginia monograph, tape bound and with a nice paper cover printed with the UVA logo. It was cataloged and placed in the UVA library, where its call number is Z5853.M6 .W37 and its OCLC number is 11054582.
Warfield later updated the bibliography with additional entries. When first issued in 1980, it was published as an Engineering School report, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where John’s clerical/secretarial/librarian assistant Carol Jackson, employed on his U.S. Dept of Education contract, did most of the work and the typing. John’s secretary Lois Gibson at Center for Interactive Management was probably the typist for the 1981 Supplement #1 and the 1982 Digest. Rose Warfield did the typing and compiling of the 1990 edition.
Many of the papers listed in this bibliography were collected in John’s office files, in a file cabinet which came to be known as the IASIS file. These IASIS file cabinet papers were available for a time at the George Mason University Library Reserve desk for student checkout. Each paper was identified by an IASIS File Number. The IASIS File numbers were added to the text of the 1990 bibliography as a finding aid for students. The IASIS File cabinet was eventually dismantled and its contents of more than 100 documents was donated to other institutions (ITESM Library, in Monterrey, Mexico and David Acker Library in Ft. Belvoir.) (r.w. circa 1990, updated 2001, 2013).
